Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel Mokyr persuasively argues that sustained technological progress stemmed from a change in cultural beliefs. The change occurred gradually during the seventeenth and eighteenth...

It is of course not surprising that India has never seen anything similar to the European mass enlightenment during its domination under an empire which was itself a seat of historic Enlightenment movement. But it is indeed quite intriguing that India after independence has chosen to stubbornly...

It could possibly be a sheer historical coincidence that development economics as a distinct branch of economics was being born at a time when the cold war was blossoming too. But the question as to what has subsequently happened to the fate of the sub-field along with the trajectory of the cold...

The present paper consists of a modest attempt at tracing the trajectory of the post-war dominance of neo-liberal economic perspective on higher educational policy and finance with its far-reaching ramifications with respect to contemporary trends in educational outcomes and standard. It is...

The early 1960s witnessed attempts at a constrictive re-interpretation of the role and purpose (and hence philosophy) of education solely in terms of the ideological premises, concepts/categories and methodology of the mainstream (neoliberal) economics, with the ‘economics of education’...

West Bengal, a major state of eastern India, is conspicuous not only for being ruled by an elected Leftist coalition - so-called Left Front - uninterruptedly for about last three decades (often described as sound 'political stability'), but also for its widely acknowledged successes in fertility...