This paper presents a method for specifying and measuring poverty d efined as relative deprivation. The authors base their measure of an individual's poverty on the distance between his/her consumption experience and the social norm. Consumption experience is defined in terms of events, and the...

This collection of Meghnad Desai's essays are a treatise on the poltical economy of South Asia in generalm and of India in particulr, in the last thirty five years. They venture into political history and engage in issues of policy. All these articles are in response to the issues that have been...

Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Marx's Schemes of Reproduction is the only genuinely immanent critique of Marxian dynamics. But it needs to be brought up to date. To this end, in this paper it is placed in the context of more modern discussions of dual instability, in order to gain a better...