Urbanization and the Fate of Small Farmers
| Event Start Date: 29th June 2016 | Event End Date: 29th June 2016 | Event Venue: Bangalore |
Date: June 29, 2016 5.00pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Ginserv Auditorium Behind Hotel Leela Kempinski, HAL 3rd Stage, Kodihalli, Bengaluru 560008
About the Talk
Proximity to urban centres carry the advantage of access to markets with large purchasing power, but it also has the disadvantage of making increasing demand on agriculture especially in terms of natural resources including common property. The process of transformation of agriculture, especially small farm agriculture is an outcome of the interplay of these two opposite tendencies which impacts on labour, employment, ecology and livelihood in both urban and rural areas. Since large farms usually have greater adaptability to such changes, a contrast between small and large farms of the impact of urbanization may reveal further aspects. This analysis would also explain the link between the political issue of agrarian distress on the one hand, and the problem of increasing degradation of urban environment on the other.
About the Speaker
Amit Bhaduri is Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and is currently the Visiting Chair Professor in Political Economy at Goa University. He has served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pavia, Italy, Reader at the Delhi School of Economics, and Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cambridge University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1967.
Amit Bhaduri’s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. His contribution as an economic theorist lies in challenging the mainstream theory and analyzing the role of power in the market economy in a precise and yet compelling way. He has published more than 60 papers in leading international journals and is currently on the editorial boards of five of them. He has written ten books, including: The Economic Structure of Backward Agriculture (1982), Macroeconomics: The Dynamics of Commodity Production (1986), Unconventional Economic Essays (1992), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalisation (coauthored with D. Nayyar) (1996), On the Border of Economic Theory and History (1999), Development with Dignity (2006), Growth, Distribution and Innovations: Understanding their Interrelations (2007) and The Face You Were Afraid To See: Essays On The Indian Economy (2009).
He is a winner of the prestigious Leontief Prize. 2016, instituted for contributions to economic theory that address contemporary realities and support just and sustainable societies.
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