In An Uncertain Glory, two of India's leading economists argue that there have been major failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions.
Jean Drèze (Author)
JEAN DRÈZE, currently visiting professor at Ranchi University
(ex-LSE), has lived in India since 1979. He has made wide-ranging
contributions
to development economics and public policy, with special reference
to India. He is the author of Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala
Economics for Everyone, the co-author of the Public Report on Basic
Education in India and, with Amartya Sen, of Hunger and Public
Action and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions.
Amartya Sen (Author)
Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of
Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge,
from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998.
His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999),
The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The
Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have
been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2012 he received
the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he
was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President
Steinmeier.
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