1st Edition
Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy
1. The Problem
2. The Mysteries of Technological Progress
3. Ocean Navigation and The Grand Reversal
4. A Short Note on New World Reversals
5. The First Industrial Nation and its Many Reversals Of Fortune
6. Full Circle
Epilogue
References
Biography
Ashok Sanjay Guha is Professor Emeritus at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He has also taught at Yale, the University of California (Berkeley), UCLA, Syracuse University, the University of Colorado, the University of Melbourne and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Planning Commission, the Ministries of Finance and Commerce, Government of India, the University Grants Commission, the Union Public Service Commission, the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the All India Council of Technical Education. In 1982, he was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for outstanding contribution by an Indian economist.
A few of his recent publications include the volumes Economics without Tears: A New Approach to an Old Discipline (2017), Markets and Morals: Some Ethical Issues in Economics (2011) and many pieces in major international scholarly journals and Indian newspapers.
