Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Professor of Economics
He has taught, researched and guided research in many institutions and universities including Presidency College, Kolkata, University of Cambridge(UK), University of Bristol(UK), Cornell University(USA), Trent University(Canada), Roskilde University(Denmark) and Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. He was formerly Reserve Bank of India Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is currently a member of the State Planning Board, Government of West Bengal and was recently Chairman of a committee appointed by the Government of West Bengal to report on the finances of the government during the Tenth Five Year Plan period. He has acted at several times as external collaborator and consultant for the ILO,UNCTAD and UNDIESA. He acted as the official historian of The State Bank of India until 1997.
His books include Private Investment in India 1900-1939 (1972), The Political Economy of Underdevelopment недвижимость киева (1982), a four-volume history of the State Bank of India (1987-97) starting with the Evolution of the State Bank of India, Part I and II (1987), and Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and the Republic of Korea (1987),Capital and Labour Re-defined: India and the Third World (Tulika, New Delhi and Anthem Press, London, 2002). His latest book is The Developmental State in History and in the Twentieth Century (New Delhi, Regency Publications,2004). His research interests include finance, human development issues and other aspects of development and the prospects of democracy in globalising world. He has completed a book on the history of capitalism from 1492 to 2003.
Rich men's globalization: How do women
and the poor fare?, in Malini Bhattacharya
(ed.): Perspectives in Women's Studies: Globalization, New Delhi,
Tulika, pp.3-11 (2004).
Nanny state for capital and Social Darwinism for the workers,
The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 47(1), January-March,
2004 pp. 69-80 .
Discontents of democracy: Elite pluralism, mystification and
the rule of big capital, pp. 13-28 in Fahimul Quadir and Jayant
Lele (eds.): Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Vol.1, Globalization,
democracy and civil society in Asia, New York, Palgrave Macmillan
(2004).
Abstract of a talk delivered at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics on 29 November 2004