Poverty Or Plenty
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491_9781406746044
POVERTY OR PLENTY M. N. ROY with an INTRODUCTION By G. D. PARIKft, M. A. Professor of Economics, R, N. Ruia Cottegz Bom Bay RENAISSANCE PUBLISHERS Post Box 580, CALCUTTA Price Rs. 2-8-0 CONTENTS PAGE INRODUCTION ... ... i xxxvii I. PROBLEM OF PRICE CONTROL ... ... 1 II. DEMOCRACY vs. CAPITALISM ... ... 24 III. THE ABSURDITIES ... ... 30 IV. Axis OF INDIAN POLITICS ... ... 45 V. BROTHERHOOD OF BIG BUSINESS ... 58 VI. AN ECONOMIC FALLACY ... ... 70 VII. SPECTRE OF POST-WAR SJHJMP .... 81 VIII. PLANNED ECONOMY I .. ... 91 IX. DITTO II ... ... 101 X. DITTO III -.., ... 112 XI. DITTO IV ... ... 123 Appendix A Memorandum on Food ... 137 Do. B A Costly Experiment ... 141 Do. C Tables ... ... ... 146 INTRODUCTION To write an introduction to a book like the present one is a difficult task, and particularly so for one with only a few years ot apprenticeship in the study of a disci pline of thought, to which many have devoted their life time. I was never more deeply conscious of this limitation of mine than when I consented to write the present intro duction. The consciousness was further intensified by the fact that it is a book by one of the most acute thinkers of our times. It is a book of a thinker whose thought springs from the social reality, closely resembles it, and grows and develops along with it. The result is clarity, perspective, and an ever-present freshness hardly to be met with elsewhere. And all this with the purpose of freeing the path of economic progress of this huge sub-continent, a path which must pass through the social and economic emancipation of its millions. It was this that attracted me to the present work and it is this again that enables me to venture to write the present intro duction, more with the object of expressing my agreement, for whatever it is worth, with the analysis contained herein and the conclusions drawn therefrom, than with any other purpose. The book is a collection of articles that M. N. Roy wrote from time to time in the weekly
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