This book examines the intertwined currents shaping the new economic map of India: globalization and sustainability. Introduces new methodologies, concepts and modes of analysis which challenge well-known assumptions and help make sense of the emerging order.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rethinking and Theorizing the Indian State In the context of New Economic Map -- Chapter 3: Global Financial Crisis: What Did We Know, What Have We Learnt? -- Chapter 4: Volatility, Long Memory and Chaos: A Discussion on some “Stylized Facts” in...

A contradiction coils through the political economy: that today's financial and economic crisis began in the historical heartland of advanced information and communications technology (ICTs): the United States. It was not supposed to turn out this way. ICTs were to be the source of economic...