Fwd: Reminder: Invitation to book lauch: Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China

[Anthony D'Costa]

Anthony DCosta            

Professor of Indian Studies

Asia Research Centre

Copenhagen Business School

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Subject: Reminder: Invitation to book lauch: Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China

Invitation to book launch

Time
Tuesday 19 February
15.00-18.00

Place
Kilen
Copenhagen Business
School
Kilevej 14
2000 Frederiksberg

Room
Ks54

Directions
Closest metro station is Fasanvej st.

Registration.
The event is free of charge, but registration is required. Please register at arc...@cbs.dk<mailto:arc...@cbs.dk><mailto:arc...@cbs.dk>

Contact
arc...@cbs.dk<mailto:arc...@cbs.dk><mailto:arc...@cbs.dk>
3815 3409

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Arranged by
Asia Research Centre, CBS<http://www.cbs.dk/arc>

A limited number of copies of the book will be available at a special discounted price (DKK 299)




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Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China

Edited by Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Anthony P. D’Costa.
(November 2012, Oxford University Press)






In this wide-ranging set of essays on India and China, more than a dozen leading political economists share their expertise to provide a nuanced and critical appreciation of the process of Transformation and Development in the two largest and economically fast growing nations. Both countries are contributing to the realignment of the world economy at a time when advanced capitalist countries are reeling under a severe financial crisis. Yet both India and China in the process of transition are characterized by deep rural poverty, unprecedented forms of inequality and social and economic imbalances, excessive reliance on volatile export markets, brutal land grabs, and forms of ‘crony’ capitalism. The eighteen contributors collectively engage in the discussion of these and other related issues such as agriculture and accumulation, food grain supply chain, savings and investment, growth and inequality, global finance and outward foreign direct investment, science and technology, and R&D policies. The net result is a detailed tapestry capturing the dynamics of India and China in an interdisciplinary, historically-sensitive way that both acknowledges the significant strides the two economies have made in the last sixty years and points to the deep social, economic, and political divides that need to be urgently addressed for shared prosperity and meaningful social progress.

Programme details:
Moderator Professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Director of Asia Research Centre
15:00-15:20: Welcome and “ARC and the Study of Contemporary India and China”, Professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Director Asia Research Centre, CBS
15:20-15:45: “Primitive Accumulation, Compressed Capitalism, and Indian Transition”, Anthony P. D’Costa, Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director, Asia Research Centre, CBS, and most recently the editor of Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia and A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century.
15:45-16:30: “The Chinese Peasantry and Primitive Accumulation of Capital in China, 1800 to 2010”, Dr. Kent Deng, Reader in Economic History, London School of Economics and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Most recently the author of China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and Economic Consequences, 1800-2000.
16:30-17:00:
Brief Discussion
Closing Remarks, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
17:00-18:00 Reception
Please remember to sign up.