{"product_id":"sense-and-solidarity-jholawala-economics-for-everyone-9780198833468","title":"Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean Dreze\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Developing \u0026amp; Emerging Countries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Dreze has a rare and distinctive understanding of the Indian economy and its relationship with the social life of ordinary people. He has travelled widely in rural India and done fieldwork of a kind that few economists have attempted. In \u003cem\u003eSense and Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e Dreze offers unique insight on issues of hunger, inequality, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates that often accompanied them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Jholawala\" has become a disparaging term for activists in the Indian business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed introduction, the author argues for an approach to development economics where research and action are complementary and interconnected.\u003cem\u003eSense and Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e spans the gamut of critical social policies, from education and health to poverty, nutrition, child care, corruption, employment, and social security. There are also less predictable topics such as the caste system, corporate power, nuclear disarmament, the Gujarat model, the Kashmir conflict, and universal basic income. \u003cem\u003eSense and Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46420003160215,"sku":"9780198833468","price":3431.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198833468.webp?v=1769076370","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sense-and-solidarity-jholawala-economics-for-everyone-9780198833468","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}