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Leonid Hurwicz (1917-2008) was a major figure in modern theoretical economics whose contributions over sixty-five years spanned at least five areas: econometrics, nonlinear programming, decision theory, microeconomic theory, and mechanism design. While some of Hurwicz's work were published in journals, many remain scattered as chapters in books which are difficult to access and others were never published at all. The Collected Papers of Leonid Hurwicz is the first volume in a series of four that will bring his oeuvre in one place, to bring to light the totality of his intellectual output, and to document his contribution to economics and the extent of his legacy, with the express purpose to make it easily available for future generations of researchers to build upon.

"This book is an anthropological study of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in one particular rural setting in India, studied from 1998 to 2013. It draws on deep ethnographic engagement with the people and social life in two villages both during elections and in the time in between them, to show how these two temporalities connect. The analysis shows how an agrarian village society produces the social imaginaries required for democratic and republican values. The ethnographic microscope on a single paddy growing setting allows us to examine how the various social institutions of kinship, economy and religion are critical sites for the continual civic cultivation of cooperation, vigilance, redistribution, inviolate commitment and hope - values that are essential for democracy"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Markets -- 1.1 Market Demand and Supply -- 1.2 Determinants of Demand and Supply -- 1.3 Market Interventions -- 1.4 Elasticities -- 2 Budgets -- 2.1 Commodity Space -- 2.2 Competitive Budgets -- 2.3 Changes in Prices or Income -- 2.4 Non-Competitive Budgets -- 3 Preferences -- 3.1 Binary Relations -- 3.2 Properties of Binary Relations -- 3.3 Utility Representation of Preferences -- 3.4 Types of Preferences -- 3.5 The Notion of Utility -- 3.6 Utility, Preferences, and Properties -- 3.7 Special Topics° -- 4 Individual Demands -- 4.1 Preference Maximization on Budgets -- 4.2 Calculating Individual Demands -- 4.3 Two Properties of Demand Functions -- 5 Consumer Comparative Statics -- 5.1 Price and Income Consumption Curves -- 5.2 Individual Elasticities of Demand -- 5.3 Decomposing Price Effects -- 6 Exchange Economies -- 6.1 The Edgeworth Box -- 6.2 Properties of Allocations -- 6.3 Walras Equilibrium -- 6.4 Allowing for More Goods or Consumers -- 6.5 Walras' Law and the Welfare Theorems° -- 7 Technology -- 7.1 Production Functions and Productivity -- 7.2 Types of Technologies -- 7.3 Returns to Scale -- 7.4 Production Possibility Frontiers -- 8 Costs -- 8.1 Cost Functions: The One-input Case -- 8.2 Cost Functions: The Two-inputs Case -- 8.3 Calculating Cost Functions -- 8.4 Cost Concepts -- 8.5 Returns to Scale Revisited -- 8.6 Cost Functions with Multiple Technologies° -- 8.7 Deriving Technologies Underlying Cost Functions° -- 9 Competitive Firms -- 9.1 Defining Profits -- 9.2 Short-Run Profit Maximization -- 9.3 Shifts in a Firm's Supply -- 9.4 Perfect Competition in the Long Run -- 10 Monopoly -- 10.1 Uniform Pricing -- 10.2 Differential Pricing -- 10.3 Personalized Pricing -- 10.4 Group Pricing.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Theoretical Dichotomies; Instrumentalism and Primordialism; A Critique of Instrumentalism; Conclusion; 2. Incidents of Violence; Jogeshwari; Behrampada; Dharavi,; Govandi/Deonar,; Context of the Riots in Mumbai,; Conclusion,; 3. Economic Dislocations; Unique Conditions; De-Industrialization; The Informal Sector; Demand for Factory Labor; Growth in the Services Sector; Aftermath of the Textile Strike; Conclusion; 4. Political Dislocations; Crisis of Congress Governability; Internal Rivalry and the Political Vacuum in Maharashtra; Shifts in Caste Voting; Betrayal of Secularism; Politics of Demolition; Conclusion; 5. Mobilization of the Shiv Sena; The Political Story of the Shiv Sena; The Recruitment of Party Activists; The Shiv Sena: Who Leads?; The Shiv Sena and Its Economic Role; Conclusion; 6. Masculine Hinduism; Hegemonic Masculinity and Nationalism; Hinduism and Colonialism; Masculine Hinduism and Hindu Revivalism; Tactics of Masculine Hinduism in Maharashtra; Ideas of Masculine Hinduism in the Mumbai Riots; Conclusion; 7. The Future of Secular Democracy; Public Responses to the Mumbai Riots; Hindu Nationalism and the Elections; Sena/BJP Governance: Loss of Credibility; Sena/BJP Governance: Selected Policies; Hindu Nationalism and Nuclear Testing; Conclusion; 8. Conclusions; Selected Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Self -- 1 Renunciation and Antisocial Being -- 2 Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik -- Part II. Action -- 3 Karma, Freedom, and Everyday Life -- 4 Labor, Hunger, and Struggle -- Part III. Idea -- 5 Equality and Spirituality -- 6 Equality and Economic Reason -- Part IV. People -- 7 People as Party -- 8 People as Fiction -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book traces the journey of Mahatma Gandhi, from being a simple and truth-seeking human being, a satyarthi, to a committed, conscious and social human being, a satyagrahi. It specifically looks at this critical transformation during the time Gandhi was in South Africa. The central argument of the book is that Gandhi evolved from being a satyarthi to a satyagrahi in South Africa. Subsequently in India, he consolidated his orientation with an emphasis on praxis, by developing his ideas as instruments for social and individual struggles. Marked by a series of events, this period was an intense quest of self-realization and understanding, and shows his journey from being Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to being Mahatma Gandhi. The book discusses various elements of Gandhian thought and praxis - morality, wisdom, non-violence, truth, social justice, dharma, trusteeship, education, sarvodaya, Hind Swaraj, swadeshi, and social service - and interprets the relevance of Gandhi's thought in the modern world by highlighting its unique significance for social transformation and change. Lucid and accessible, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Gandhi studies, Indian political thought, modern Indian history, and political studies.

Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION -- Structures and History -- Meaning -- Structural Evolution -- Norms -- Summary -- 3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Introduction -- Reproduction and Evolution of Transactive Networks -- Corporate Culture -- Market Culture -- Growth Ensembles in India -- The First Growth Ensemble 1956-1965 -- Some Corporate Cultures in the First Market Culture -- Market Culture in Steel and Engineering -- The Second Growth Ensemble 1966-(1975) -- Some Corporate Cultures of the Second Market Culture -- Market Culture in Agriculture and Fertilizers -- 4. THE STATE -- The Property Regime -- The Property Regime Interacting with the Market Culture -- The Image of Progress -- The Market Culture Acting upon the Image of Progress -- The Image of Progress Acting upon the Property Regime -- The Triangle of Reproduction -- Elaboration of the Dominant Alliance -- Crisis -- The Dominant Alliance in Society -- 5. THE FIRST DOMINANT ALLIANCE 1956-1965 -- Social Impediments -- The Property Regime -- The Property Regime Interacting with the Market Culture -- The Image of Progress -- The Implementing Coalition -- The Finance Ministry -- Ministry of Commerce and Industry -- Ministry of Steel and Heavy Industry -- The Image of Progress Acting upon the Property Regime -- The Market Culture Acting upon the Image of Progress -- Reproduction of the First Dominant Alliance -- 6. THE CRISIS -- 7. THE SECOND DOMINANT ALLIANCE 1966-1975 -- Social Impediments -- The Property Regime -- The Property Regime Interacting with the Market Culture -- The Image of Progress -- The Implementing Coalition -- The Prime Minister and the Planning Commission -- The Ministry of Food and Agriculture -- The Ministry of Finance -- Reserve Bank of India.