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BANERJEE Debdas (Dr.)
Professor of Economics
Calcutta University Alipore Campus, India
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
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Past experience:
1985--2003: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) (autonomous institute under the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India)
Education:
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Calcutta
M.A. with First Class in Economics, University of Calcutta
Most notable accomplishments, honours, and awards:
• (Forthcoming Book, tentatively in December 2007) The Scourge of Unchained Capital, co-edited with Michael Goldfield (Routledge: London and New York).
• 2007: (April-May) Visiting Professor at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (taught a postgraduate course)
• 2006: AWARD FINALIST, Medal for Research on Development (Titled:“Globalisation, Institutions and Development”), 7th Annual Global Development Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia (January)
• 2005: (BOOK) Globalisation, Industrial Restructuring and Labour Standards: Where India Meets the Global (Sage Publications: New Delhi, London, and Thousand Oaks)
• 2003: FULBRIGHT POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH SCHOLAR at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (March – November)
• 2001: VISITING FELLOW to France in the frame of the Indo-French Programme of Cooperation in Social Sciences (at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris)
• 1999: Charles Wallace (India) Trust Award, to UK
• 1999: (BOOK) Colonialism in Action: Trade, Development and Dependence in Late Colonial India (New Delhi: Orient Longman; and, London: Sangam Books)
On-going research programme:
Transnationalization of Labour Processes and Practices, and Trends in the Future of Work: The Regional Dimensions
Currently preparing the State Development Report commissioned by the State
Planning Board, Government of West Bengal (for the Planning Commission).
Teaching experience:
• M.Phil. (in Development Studies, 2-year course of the Calcutta University
being conducted by IDSK)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware)
• postgraduate course at Chaire Finances Internationales (Sciences Po, Paris)
• UGC sponsored Refresher Courses for the undergraduate teachers
• (Pre-PhD) Research Training Programme (one-year course) being conducted by CSSSC
Ph.D. thesis supervised, and acted as the Ph.D. and M.Phil. Thesis examiner, paper setter, and paper examiner (PG & UG) of several universities (including JNU)
Member International Editorial Board, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labour and Society (Blackwell Publishing);
Editorial Advisor, Burdwan University Journal of Economics
State Level Committee to prepare the ‘Perspective Plans for Power Sector in West Bengal’, Government of West Bengal
External collaborations:
2006-07: Commissioned by the Government of West Bengal to write the State Development Report
2001-02: As Project Director, jointly commissioned by the Planning Commission, Government of India, and the State Planning Board, Government of West Bengal, to prepare the “State Development Report on Industry, Services and Power” which included: Status report, resource assessment, state perspectives for 2007, and policy directions
1989-1994: As Executive Project Director, in the World Bank (and, Swiss Development Cooperation) project (channelled through the Central Silk Board, Government of India) on “Beneficiary Assessment of the National Sericulture Project”, hosted by CSSSC
1984-85: As External Collaborator of the International Labour Organisation,
Geneva, in a project: ‘Impact of microelectronics on employment, productivity, and output in India’
1983-84: As External Collaborator of the International Labour Organisation
(ARTEP), Bangkok, in a project: ‘Public intervention in industrial restructuring in selected Asian countries’
Publications
Books
(Forthcoming, tentatively in December 2007) The Scourge of Unchained Capital:
Labour, Women, Migrants, and the State Confront Neoliberalism, co-edited with Michael Goldfield (Routledge: London and New York).
2005 Globalisation, Industrial Restructuring, and Labour Standards: Where
India meets the Global (Sage Publication: New Delhi, London, and Thousand Oaks).
1999 Colonialism in Action: Trade, Development and Dependence in Late
Colonial India (Orient Longman: New Delhi; and Sangam Books: London)
Journal articles and other research papers (excluding popular writings and book reviews)
(Forthcoming) ‘Globalisation, economic transformation, and labour: Understanding “post-industrial” with special reference to India’, M.
Gillan and D. Caspersz (Eds.), Labour, Migration and Economic Restructuring in the Asia-Pacific
(Forthcoming) ‘Labour regulations, industrial development and workers with special reference to West Bengal’, in T. S. Papola (Ed.), Labour Regulations and Industrial Development.
2007 ‘Nuclear power plant and “choice of technology” in West Bengal’, Dainik Statesman, 15 January.
2007 ‘Revisiting Mahalanobis strategy of planning after 50 years’, Arthabeekshan, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Reprinted, special invited lecture at the Bengal Economic Association on the occasion, Sept 2006).
2006 ‘The illusions and reality of capitalist development in the 21st century India’, Ekak Matra, Vol. 7, No. 3 (November).
2006 ‘A critique of the Approach Paper to Eleventh Five-Year Plan in India’,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 31 (August) (Jointly with Amiya Bagchi and Achin Chakraborty).
2006 ‘Information technology, productivity growth and reduced leisure: Revisiting “End of History”, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labour and Society, Vol. 9, No. 2, (Blackwell).
2005 ‘Knowledge workers and information technology: Reliving early English Industrial Revolution’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 48, No. 4.
2005 ‘Trend of factor incomes distribution in Indian factories’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Special Issue on Wages and Earnings in India, Vol. 48, No. 2.
2004 ‘Is there overestimation of “British capital” outflow? Keynes’s Indo-British trade and transfer accounts re-examined with alternative evidence’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 41, No. 2.
2003 ‘Concentration and Investment Behaviour of Indian Corporate Manufacturing: An Institutional Approach’, in A K Bagchi, M Chattopadhyay and R Khasnobis (Eds.), Economy and Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra, Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co.
2002 ‘Wage-productivity-profitability in Indian industry and labour market institutions: Whither trade union?’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 45, No. 4.
2002 (2006) ‘Professor J. K. Mehta: The “economic scientist”—A note on the philosophical understanding of economics’, Conference Volume 2002 of the Indian Economic Association (Invited paper on the occasion of birth centenary of J K Mehta). Reprinted in Jiwitesh Kumar Singh and Prahlad Kumar (Eds.), Economics of J. K. Mehta: A Peep into Mehtanomics, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications (2006).
2002 “Competitiveness” and labour-wage-productivity in Indian manufacturing’, in National Labour Commission Recommendations: A Discussion, Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata.
2001 ‘Non-institutional Rural Credit in West Bengal: Analysis of Interest Rate Variation’, in S.N. Sau and P.S. Das (Eds.), Fifty Years of Rural Development in India, Kolkata: Firma KLM.
2000 ‘Processes of informalisation in rural non-farm sector: Silk production in West Bengal - Institution and organisation’, CSSSC Occasional Paper No. 171.
1999 ‘State regulation versus market forces: Experiences of India and Russia’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34, Nos. 10&11.
1998 ‘Political Economy of Imbalances across Indian States’, in B. Chatterjee and H. Sur (Eds.), Regional Dimensions of the Indian Economy, Delhi: Allied Publishers.
1998 ‘Science, technology and economic development in India: Analysis of divergence in historical perspective’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, No. 20.
1998 ‘Indian industrial growth and corporate sector behaviour in West Bengal, 1947-1997’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, Nos. 47&48.
1996 ‘Industrialisation Program in West Bengal: Policy and the Problems— Some Lessons from Newly Industrialising Countries in Asia’, in A. Raychaudhuri and D. Sarkar (Eds.), Economy of West Bengal: Problems and Prospects, Kolkata: Allied.
1996 ‘Rural informal credit institution in South Asia: An unresolved agrarian question’, CSSSC Occasional Paper No. 155.
1996 ‘Institution, politics and industrial investment behaviour in India in the perspective of Asian NICs: An exploratory study with electronics industry’, Mimeo, paper presented at the ENRECA, Denmark, Workshop on ‘Institutional Framework for Industrial Development’, November.
1995 ‘Market and non-market configurations in rural West Bengal: Local organisation and silk weaving’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, No. 47.
1993 ‘Development and Women: Some Experience of the Mulberry Silk Production in West Bengal’, in J. Acharya (Ed.), Women in Development, Delhi: Indian Publishers Distributors.
1992 “Regional specialisation and market convergence’ revisited: India's internal commodity trade, c.1850-1920", CSSSC Occasional Paper No. 137, August.
1990 ‘An appraisal of the profitability of the Indo-British commodity trade during 1871-1887’, (The) Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2.
1990 ‘Silk production in West Bengal: A case of stunted commercialisation’, CSSSC Occasional Paper No. 124.
1988 ‘Indian Planning and Regional Disparity in Growth’, in Amiya Kumar Bagchi (Ed.), Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in the Political Economy of Indian Planning, Oxford University Press (jointly with Anjan Ghosh).
1988 ‘Some quantitative aspects of the changes in manufacture in India, 1880- 1900’, CSSSC Occasional Paper No. 101.