1st Edition

Value, Distribution and Development Perspectives of Classical Political Economy

Edited By Goddanti Omkarnath, Sudhanshu Bhushan Copyright 2026
292 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the crisis of neo-classical economic theory in an attempt to explain developments in the post-war period. It explores two important aspects: strengthening the tradition of classical political economy (CPE) that arose in response to various critiques of neo-classical economic theory and exploring the potential of CPE to deal with issues of development. The advantage of an... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Goddanti Omkarnath and Sudhanshu Bhushan

2 Scarcity in the Theories of Value

Antonella Palumbo

3 On Alternative Notions of Change and Choice: Krishna Bharadwaj’s Legacy

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

4 Reproduction and Change: Notes on Methodology

Goddanti Omkarnath

5 Differences, Switches, and ‘Consistently Side by Side’: Krishna Bharadwaj and the Sraffian Critique of Economic Theory

Christian Gehrke

6 A Brief Review of Capital Theory

Amit Bhaduri

7 Transformations of the Cambridge Critique

Bertram Schefold

8 White Elephants and Other Non-basic Commodities: Piero Sraffa and Krishna Bharadwaj on the Role and Significance of the Distinction between Basics and Nonbasics

Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori

9 Marx’s Economics from Value, Price and Profit

Prabhat Patnaik

10 Marx after Sraffa: Redux

Ajit Sinha

11 Krishna Bharadwaj on Expectations in Economics

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

12 A Classical-Keynes Model of Money and Finance for Transiting Economies

Romar Correa

13 The Interlinkages between Paid and Unpaid Labour: A Homage to Krishna Bharadwaj

Jayati Ghosh

14 The New Political Economy of the Twenty-First-Century Higher Education

Sudhanshu Bhushan

Subject Index

Author Index

Biography

Goddanti Omkarnath is currently Honorary Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, where he was earlier Professor and Dean. His teaching and research interests have included classical political economy, capital theory, and theoretical approaches to the study of the Indian economy. He has been involved in initiatives on reforming economics education in India. Before joining the university in 2000, Omkarnath served on the faculty of the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Sudhanshu Bhushan is a former professor and head of the Department of Higher and Professional Education at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi. He specializes in internationalization, policy issues, and planning in higher education. His notable works include The Future of Higher Education in India (Ed. 2019), Governance of Higher Education in Bihar (2021), The Evolving Landscape of Higher Education in India: Post-pandemic Policies and Transformations (Ed. 2024) and Critical Explorations in Social Sciences: Essays presented to Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik (Eds. Praveen Jha and Sudhanshu Bhushan) (2025). He received the Amartya Sen Award in 2012 for distinguished social science research. He is the editor of Indian Economic Journal.