Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State New Perspectives on Development Dynamics

Anthony P. D'Costa is the Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Previously he was the Chair and Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies, and Director of the Development Studies Program at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. He was also affiliated with the University’s Australia India Institute for three years. During 2008–13, he was the Research Director and A.P. Moller-Maersk Professor of Indian Studies, Asia Research Centre at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He was also with the University of Washington for 18 years. He has written extensively on the political economy of steel, auto, and IT industries covering themes of capitalism and globalization, economic and social development, business dynamics and innovations, and industrial restructuring. Currently his work focuses on employment challenges in late industrializing India and is working on a new framework called “compressed capitalism”. His recent books are After-Development Dynamics: South Korea’s Contemporary Engagement with Asia (edited, OUP, 2015), International Mobility, Global Capitalism, and Changing Structures of Accumulation: Transforming the Japan-India IT Relationship (Routledge, 2016), and The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition (coedited, OUP, 2017). He has published in World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of International Development, Review of International Political Economy, Economic and Political Economy, Asian Business and Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and Critical Asian Studies , among others. He has been a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, Korea Foundation, Social Science Research Council, UN World Institute of Development Economics Research, Helsinki; Abe (Japan Foundation), and the EastWest Center in Honolulu.

Achin Chakraborty is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Development Studies in Kolkata, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Riverside, USA, in 1995. His areas of research interest include welfare economics, microeconomic issues in development economics, human development, health economics, environmental economics, and methodology of economics. He was earlier on the faculty of the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala. He has published widely in such journals as Economic Theory, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Economic and Political Weekly , and others. He has co-edited with Anthony D’Costa the recently published book The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition (OUP, 2017).