Introduction. -- Part I. Money and the market. -- The difference between markets and barter: money and the making of markets. -- Capital and the firm : the firm as the engine of the market process. -- Money and money creation in a two-stage banking system. -- Part II. Market and production. --...

Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and...