Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor. In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by every owner of wealth, property or production ability in capital and financial markets whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.Economists, historians, political economists and sociologists have adopted different perspectives in their analyses …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 March 2024 English
The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …
system in India in recent years as “conglomerate capitalism” (Damodaran, 2020) and a “conclave economy” (Bardhan …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …
Generational transmission of smallholder farms in late capitalism. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 40 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …
in the green economy, to a radical critique of capitalism and refusal of market solutions”12 . At least … changing the rules of global capitalism, but rather a greening of capitalism through voluntary, bottom-up …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
Rohan D’Souza’s Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern 55 India, and Nitin …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important historical ideas, the series has been sponsored …
different from each other. Americans supported capitalism, while the Soviets were believers of 32 socialism … government will spend money on and in what way. Capitalism An economic system in which farms, mines, factories …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English
This report was published in March 2023 by Common Cause, New Delhi, and Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. It is …
philosopher Shoshana Zuboff terms as “surveillance capitalism” – surveillance meant to monitor data and modify … other. Zuboff further argues that surveillance capitalism uses ‘instrumentarian power’ to monitor and …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2022 English
Oxfam India’s annual publication – Digital Divide: India Inequality Report 2022 – highlights the prevailing inequality in accessing digital technology in India. The report, published in December 2022, emphasises the …
coverage in rural areas. There is a sense of techno-capitalism where one private player accounts for half of … For example, technology colonialism or techno-capitalism focuses on corporate power and examines how …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 June 2022 English
This report was published in June 2022 by Pratichi Institute, a Kolkata-based research institute working on themes related to human development such as education and health. It evaluates the implementation …
thinking, encapsulated in the doctrine of 'Disaster Capitalism', which forcefully suggests that market forces …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 January 2022 English
The UK-based organisation Oxfam International published this briefing paper concerning the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on January 17, 2022. The paper was written by Nabil Ahmed, Head of …
accidental error in today’s dominant form of capitalism, but a core part of it. We estimate that inequality …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 January 2022 English
Published by Oxfam India on January 16, 2022, this is the India supplement of the global Inequality Kills report. This brief has been written by Oxfam India researchers Apoorva Mahendru, …
they were earlier. Profit is the bedrock of capitalism and the pandemic offers us a unique opportunity …