Two decades of market reform in India : some dissenting views

List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : a critical look at two decades of market reform in India / Sudipta Bhattacharyya -- Development planning and the interventionist state versus liberalization and the neoliberal state : India, 1989-1996 / Terence J. Byres -- Predatory growth / Amit Bhaduri -- On some currently fashionable propositions in public finance / Prabhat Patnaik -- The costs of "coupling" : the global crisis and the Indian economy / Jayati Ghosh and C. P. Chandrasekhar -- Theorizing food security and poverty in the era of economic reforms / Utsa Patnaik -- Globalization, the middle class and the transformation of the Indian state in the new economy / Anthony P. D'Costa -- The world trade organization and its impact on India / Parthapratim Pal -- Changing employment scenario during market reform and feminization of distress in India / Sudipta Bhattacharyya and Uma Basak -- Privatization and deregulation / Ashok Rudra -- Macroeconomic impact of public sector enterprises : some further evidence / R. Nagaraj -- Liberalization, demand and Indian industrialization / Surajit Mazumdar -- On fiscal deficit, interest rate and crowding-out / Surajit Das -- Going, going, but not yet quite gone: the political economy of the Indian intermediate classes during the era of liberalization / Matthew McCartney -- List of contributors -- List of tables and figures