Books reviewed: Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie, The Causes and Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis V.N. Balasubramanyan, Conversations with Indian Economists Taketoshi Ito and Anne Krueger, The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development Kenneth Schreve and Matthew...

Books reviewed: Horst Siebert, Economic Policy Issues of the New Economy Charles E. Lindblom, The Market System: What is it, How it works, and What to Make of it? Ronald Findlay, Lars Jonung and Mats Lundahl (eds), Bertil Ohlin: A centennial Celebration (1899-1999)

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability - the avoidance of physical contact – engaged in by upper and intermediate caste (OBC) Hindus vis-à-vis ‘scheduled’ castes (SCs) in rural India. Despite legal prohibition, the practice remains common, limiting...

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the ‘scheduled’ castes (SCs) over the extent to which...