A Sixth Of Humanity

Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS and previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans the political economy of development, international migration, public institutions and higher education.Arvind Subramanian is a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and served as India's Chief Economic Adviser between 2014 and 2018. He earlier worked at the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Ashoka, Brown, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins Universities. He has worked on growth, development, trade, globalization, China, and India.

• Introduction Part 1. Origins And OrderChapter 1. Freighted Inheritance, Fraught Beginnings and Fateful ChoicesChapter 2. Order: The Paradoxes of the Hobbesian State Part 2. State, Market and EconomyChapter III. Misunderstood and Misdiagnosed: India's Growth and Policy RegimesChapter IV. Planning Failure: Neither Growth nor Structural TransformationChapter V. Failure Amidst Success: Robust Growth Without Structural TransformationChapter VI. The Kaamadhenu Fiscal and Redistributive StateChapter VII. Globalization: Skewed and Ambivalent Part 3. State, Society and DevelopmentChapter VIII. Building Leviathan: Bureaucracy, Legibility and PresenceChapter IX. The Development State 1: Hardware of ConnectivityChapter X. The Development State II: Socialist BusinessChapter XII. The Development State III: Joint Family BankingChapter XIII. The Development State IV: Software of Human Capabilities Part 4. Nation of IndiasChapter XIII. Nation-Building: Hierarchies, Inequalities and Social CleavagesChapter XIV. Nation-Building Through Fiscal FederalismChapter XV. India's Indias: Succeeding and Failing Uniquely Part 5. ConclusionsChapter XVI. Pathologies and ParadoxesChapter XVII. Looking BackChapter XV. Peering Ahead Acknowledgements