Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvVamsi Vakulabharanam,University of Massachusetts Amherst) Vakulabharanam, Vamsi (Co-Director, Asian Political Economy Program, and Associate Professor of Economics, Co-Director, Asian Political Economy Program, and Associate Professor of Economics

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China and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50 percent of the world output; after suffering a decline thereafter, their share fell to a paltry 9 percent in 1950 but has since resurged to over 25 percent today. Their growth and inequality experiences have had strikingly similar trajectories following India's independence (1947) and the Chinese revolution (1949). This book offers novel insights by meticulously analyzing the Chinese and Indian inequality stories (1950–2010) through a class lens. Moreover, it locates their inequality stories within the larger contexts of Asian and global capitalism. Vakulabharanam demonstrates that the mutual interconnectedness between Chinese and Indian growth and inequality dynamics and the transformation and evolution of global capitalism is key to understanding the within-country inequality dynamics in both countries. The book thus offers a new framework on economic development and inequality that builds on and adds to the insights of Kuznets and Piketty.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-30
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt471 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford India-China Studies
Antal sidor306
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198934127

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Vamsi Vakulabharanam is Co-Director of the Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has previously taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008-14) and the City University of New York (2004-07). His recent research focuses on inequality in India and China and the political economy of Indian cities through the axes of gender, caste, class, and religion. In the past, he has also worked on agrarian change in developing economies, agrarian cooperatives, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. Vakulabharanam was awarded the Amartya Sen award in 2013 by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

To study social class and inequality in China or India alone is a formidable task. Yet Vakulabharanam, who has been working on both countries for years, has produced a landmark book explaining and comparing the recent history of inequality in both countries. While social class has been a concern of Indian studies, Vakulabharanam is the first to focus on--and demonstrate--its importance in understanding the Chinese case. The book's hallmark is its analysis of the links between global patterns of capitalist organization and internal developments within individual countries, which helps explain remarkable similarities in their experiences. This is an invaluable book for anyone interested in the lives of over a third of humanity.