This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.

Book Review of Wallerstein, Immanuel, et al, Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences, Vistaar Publications (a division of Sage Publications India), 1996-97, (originally published by Stanford University Press). pp.xvi+105; Rs.125

As an economist who had absorbed the best of the Keynesian revolution, macro-economic balances remained the grid on which Pramit Chaudhuri laid out his building. But his passion as a social scientist analysing an economy with perhaps the largest burden of poverty in the world came out in the...