Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the contributors -- Introduction: India: a culture in transition -- 1 Expanding the Vedantic virtues into business ethics: a leadership perspective -- 2 Significance of work...

A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and...

Labour focuses on the issues and problems concerning the efficient full employment of labour in a free market economy. The discussion is largely about the conditions (including comparative wages) underlying industrial efficiency and maximum production from various labour resources at least cost....

Part One of this book deals with the theory of how money is created and destroyed. Essential principles are illustrated by considering various models of banking systems. Part Two provides an account of the modern theory of income and employment.* Theory backed up with examples of the simplest to...

Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations...

According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades, India has focused its transitional development around movement away from a state-controlled economy toward that of a...

South Asia has become a major center of attention on the world stage with the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan since 9/11, the ongoing concern over Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan, and India's emergence as a regional economic power. In addition, the age-old problems of South Asia -...

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Super-optimizing Analysis and India’s Industrial Policy -- Background and Trends -- Alternatives, Goals and Relations -- A Super-optimum Solution -- Finding...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- SECTION I Glimpses of the Intrinsic Indian Retailing -- Chapter 1 India's Unique Retail Evolution -- Chapter 2 The Significance of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Retailing in India -- Chapter 3 The Diversity of Indian...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors' Note -- Map of South Asia -- Map of India -- Introduction -- Politics in India's Decentered Polity -- The Indian Economy: Pushing Ahead and Pulling Apart -- From Bangalore to Silicon Valley and Back: How the Indian...