Political Economy of Development and Business

Prof. Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political economist and works as Professor of Business Management and Programme Director of Strategic Business and Management at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. His research interests consist of closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes surrounding political economy of religion, business, and capitalism, along with faith and globalisation, and economic policies. He is the author of Disenchanted India and Beyond: Musings on the Lockdown Alternatives (2020), China: The Bankable State (2021), Hindu Fundamentalism and the Spirit of Global Capitalism in India (2018) and Nationalising Crisis: The Political Economy of Public Policy in India (2007).

• 1. Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India.- 2. Myth of Modernization and Development in Orissa.- 3. Interrogating Social Capital and Denials of Development in the Planning for Tribal Development in India.- 4. Capitalism and Transition of 'Needs’ Based Development to ‘Desired’ based Development.- 5. Impossible Theorem and Possibilities of Development Studies.- 6. Reification and Praxis of Public Private Partnerships in History.- 7. Challenges of cultural relativism and the future of feminist universalism.- 8. Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Modes of Capitalist Accumulation in India.- 9. Bhagavad Gita in the making of conscious capitalism.- 10. Eurocentric conceptualisation of risk in international business.- 11. Decolonising business ethics from Eurocentric philosophy and advancing radical perspectives on pluriversal African business ethics.- 12. Subjective and Objective Limits of Creative Business Education.- 13. Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires International Business to rethink its praxis.- 14. Follies of State and Capitalism during the Covid-19 Crisis.