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  Commanding Heights : Lord Meghnad Desai | on PBS
A renowned development economist, born and educated in India, Lord Meghnad Desai is currently a professor at the London School of Economics and director of the Center for the Study of Global Governance.
LORD MEGHNAD DESAI: Gandhi's vision for India was in terms of village republics, lots and lots of villages, very few big cities.
LORD MEGHNAD DESAI: In a sense all models are simplifications.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_meghnaddesai.html   (4620 words)

  
 Peer : Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai was born in 1940 and was raised to peerage as Baron Desai, of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster in 1991.
Lord Desai is a member of AUT and the Chair of the Management Committee of City Roads.
Lord Desai has special interests in economic policy, education and development, and is also the author of several publications on economics.
www.obv.org.uk /blackpolitician/peer-desai.html   (136 words)

  
 The Observer | Review | Observer review: Marx's Revenge by Meghnad Desai
But Meghnad Desai argues that the great thinker's most prominent legacy was a huge confidence trick.
Desai, a London School of Economics professor and Labour peer, performs conceptual somersaults to pursue this contention.
Desai refers to this as 'social astronomy' which would be fair if it concerned only descriptive analyses of the structures in society.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,717992,00.html   (921 words)

  
 Meghnad Desai's at it again, brings up Cong-BJP coaltion - The Economic Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Desai, who proposed the idea in papers published by him years ago, today said that country needs Unitarian solutions such a coalition of the two largest parties to accelerate the rate of economic growth.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen disagreed with Lord Desai’s definition of Indian nationhood as a motley collection of religions, castes and communities: “It is the idea of nationhood that survived the partition of India.
Lord Desai further stated that it was not necessary that marginalised section of the society would always behave in a way to assert themselves, but they were forced to act in the manner they did by the policies of the successive governments.
economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-979613,prtpage-1.cms   (477 words)

  
 Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - Centerist & Conservative: National Govt in India?
As renowned economist Lord Meghnad Desai and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen debated on kindred issues like nationhood, poverty and development, scathingly original ideas -- Desai's "grand coalition between Congress and BJP," for instance -- were tossed about to shock and awe the audience, generating much heat and light in the process.
Desai propounded his idea of India as a loose coalition of sub-nationalities, as opposed to the syncretic vision of India articulated by India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
The standard way to get rid of public opinion is to have two parties which on paper differ in their ideological world view but in reality are steeped in the same centrist-right policy making.
forum.atimes.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=421⣸   (981 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro
Desai was previously married to an English wife, Gail, but has been separated for over eight years.
Desai 2 won the argument and the girl.
Desai comments: “What it is to be 63 and to be in love is that you feel like a 23-year-old but it is a very much happier 23-year-old.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040328/asp/look/story_3047169.asp   (1071 words)

  
 MSN India - Nargis is Meghnad Desai's new muse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For Desai, a Labour peer and professor emeritus at the London School of Economics, writing about Nargis is "a matter of downloading nostalgia, and preserving memories of growing up in the 1950s.
What impresses Desai, who traverses between the worlds of high academia and popular culture with equal ease, the most about Nargis is her courage to be herself.
His foray into unravelling popular culture apart, Desai, whose diverse oeuvre includes "Development and Nationhood" and "Marx's Revenge", is essentially radical in his thinking, radical in the root sense of the word.
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This is famous economist Lord Meghnad Desai himself writing about films, confessing his passion for them in an age when watching Hindi films was looked down upon.
Yes, as Desai would have it, Dilip Kumar enjoyed hegemony as a romantic hero and every man or woman born between the mid-1920s and early 1950s, treated him as an icon.
This time, Desai gently informs that the veteran actor was present for the launch of the book in Mumbai this past week, though he could not do the same in Delhi when the book was released at a glittering function.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004022600260100.htm&date=2004/02/26/&prd=mp&   (929 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism by Meghnad Desai
In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed, in a certain sense, would have welcomed.
In "Marx's Revenge", the economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would have welcomed.
Desai argues that globalization has proved that capitalism is still capable of moving forward.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1859846440-2   (116 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - Book Review - Marx's Revenge, by Meghnad Desai
Meghnad Desai is the director of the Centre for the study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, and Marx’s Revenge is his analysis of the glories of globalization, free trade and the everlastingness of capitalism.
Desai realizes that the future of capitalism depends upon the law of the declining rate of profit.
Desai also gives Trotsky credit for Engels’ “dust bin of history” quote as well as for the theory that revolution might break out in a country that is the “weakest link” in the capitalist system (which had already been put forth by Marx and Engels long before Trotsky).
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/view/90/1/40   (813 words)

  
 Cash stash? Beware of backlash- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Former RBI governor I G Patel, who presided over the lecture, seconded the proposal, though he added that it would be "appropriate for the (RBI) governor to forward it to the minister in New Delhi".
Desai set a more modest target — replace the present currency with a new one every five years.
Desai believes this would direct hoarded, ill-gotten wealth into government coffers.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/916813.cms   (334 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In "Marx's Revenge" the distinguished economists Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed.
Desai believes that the growth of global Capatalism is now back on course, after much of the world embarked on various socialist and communist economic experiments for much of the 20th century.
Desai wonders if Marx's prediction of the eventual implosion of capatalism may now eventually come about, now that capatalism has no other economic rival.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859846440   (634 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism: Books: Meghnad Desai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Desai argues that globalization, in bringing the possibility of open competition on world markets to producers in the Third World, has proved that capitalism is still capable of moving forwards.
Desai supports his thesis by discussing three variants of socialism that arose in the 20th Century: Socialism outside Capitalism (SoC), Socialism within Capitalism (SwC), and Socialism beyond Capitalism (SbC).
Desai offers an excellent historical overview of the development of the various competing forms of socialism as well as an intricate discussion of Marx's theories of profit and growth as put forth in Das Kapital.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859844294?v=glance   (1402 words)

  
 In Defence of Marxism - Economic Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The steady decline of the ability of capitalists to extract profits from their workforces is revealed even more clearly when we look at the profit figures before tax.
When Meghnad Desai comes to discuss this aspect of Marx’s work, this is the area where his ‘equilibrium’ interpretation of Marx’s economics leads him most seriously astray.
Desai, on the other hand, seems to argue that a crisis-free future is possible for capitalism.
www.marxist.com /economicanalysis.asp   (3996 words)

  
 EURAC research - Events - Lord Meghnad Desai
Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai studied at the University of Bombay, and completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.
On 30 April 1991, he was created Lord Desai of St Clement Danes.
He is currently Chairman of the Trustee’s Board for Training for Life, Chairman of the Management Board of City Roads and on the Board of Tribune magazine.
www.eurac.edu /Events/dalailama_desai_en.htm   (146 words)

  
 The Hindu Business Line : `Coalition politics has slowed reforms' — Lord Meghnad Desai, former professor, ...
In his own words, Lord Meghnad Desai, a former professor at the London School of Economics and British peer, is "a professional ruffler of feathers".
A keen watcher of Indian politics, it is no surprise that he seems to find it difficult to keep politics out of a discussion on economic issues.
In a recent interview to Business Line, Lord Meghnad Desai spoke of the problems facing the ``core economic team'' of the present government, comprising mainly Dr Manmohan Singh, Mr P. Chidambaram and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/01/31/stories/2005013101620900.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism - Meghnad Desai
Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism - Meghnad Desai
.." A distinguished economist and seasoned heretic, Meghnad Desai has spent most of his life as an advocate on the Left.
This book is the culmination of a period of reassessment initiated by the challenge of Thatcherism, the collapse of the Soviet system, and the British Labour Party's embrace of market-driven politics, which has led Desai to his recognition of "the end of the road for democratic socialism."
www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/1859844294/Marx_s_Revenge:_The_Resurgence_of_Capitalism_and_the_Death_of_Statist_Socialism.htm   (141 words)

  
 Nehru's Hero - Desai, Lord Meghnad
It presents an analysis of politics through the prism of cinema rather than the other way round, as has often been done.
Upon examining the films of Dilip Kumar - some of which Lord Meghnad Desai has seen more than 15 times - he discovers parallels between the socio-political arena in India and its reflection on screen, bringing fresh insight into the Nehruvian period of idealism and hope.
Lord Meghnad Desai was born in 1940 in Baroda where he spent the first ten years of his life.
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 Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai : Vol 2. Poverty, Famine and Economic Development; Desai, Meghnad (Professor Of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai : Vol 2.
English Books > Economics, Finance, Business And Industry > Economics > Development Economics > Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai : Vol 2.
Desai, Meghnad (Professor Of Economics, Director, Centre For
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 Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai : Vol 2. Poverty, Famine and Economic Development; Desai, Meghnad (Professor Of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Poverty, Famine and Economic Development; Desai, Meghnad (Professor Of Economics, Director, Centre For; Author: Blaug, Mark; Author: Perlman, Mark; Hardback; Book
Desai, Meghnad (Professor Of Economics, Director, Centre For; Author: Blaug, Mark; Author: Perlman, Mark
The issues discussed in this book include econometric testing of the disguised unemployment hypothesis, theoretical and applied approaches to famine, poverty in rich as well as poor countries, poverty in Latin America and state involvement in economic development.
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 Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory: Meghnad Desai: ISBN 1852786892
Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory: Meghnad Desai: ISBN 1852786892
Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory: The Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai, Vol.
This book is part of the Economists of the Twentieth Century Series.
www.bestwebbuys.com /1852786892   (98 words)

  
 Professor Lord Desai of St Clement Danes
Desai, Meghnad; Fukuda-Parr, S.; Johansson, C.; Sagasti, F. 'Measuring the Technology Achievement of Nations and the Capacity to Participate in the Network Age.'
Chick, Victoria; Arestis, P.; Desai, M.; Dow, S (eds.).
Desai, Meghnad; Holler, M. 'Why Capital Hires Labour and Why Labour does not Hire Capital.'
www.lse.ac.uk /people/0000009183/publications.htm   (324 words)

  
 Desai, Meghnad, books on 'Chick, Victoria -- Bibliography'
Desai, Meghnad, books on 'Chick, Victoria -- Bibliography'
This is the alphabetically ordered list of books of this author on 'Chick, Victoria -- Bibliography' subject (click to see subject information and books of other authors).
edited by Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai and Sheila Dow
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 New Statesman (1996): Whose speech is it anyway?@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Meghnad Desai proposes a people's version of the state opening of parliament
In a few days, the monarch will ride in full pageantry to the Palace of Westminster for the state opening of parliament.
static.highbeam.com /n/newstatesman1996/june182001/whosespeechisitanyway   (217 words)

  
 Meghnad Desai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Desai is a Labour peer and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.
We don’t need new laws on religious hatred
At that stage, the Home Secretary dropped the religious hatred clauses from the Bill to ensure its passage.
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 [Assam] Interesting article by Lord Meghnad Desai, economist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes - Philip Arestis - Meghnad Desai - Sheila Dow - Microsoft Reader eBook
Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes - Philip Arestis - Meghnad Desai - Sheila Dow - Microsoft Reader eBook
Home > eBook Categories > Business > Business > Microsoft Reader eBooks > Philip Arestis > Meghnad Desai > Sheila Dow > Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes
The eBook club is continually growing with more eBooks added frequently.
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 AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Meghnad Desai
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 Collected Essays of Meghnad Desai Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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