The @Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought is the first volume to explore how the classical economists explained the status of women in society. As the essays show, the focus of the classical school was not nearly as limited to the activities of men as conventional wisdom has supposed....

The South Asian economies within the global context / Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth, and Marika Vicziany -- Privatization and resistance in South Asia / Peter Mayer -- The middle classes of South Asia / Marika Vicziany -- Overseas research and development and appropriation of intellectual...