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Name: Anjan Kumar Chakrabarti

Present Job Status: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta.

E-mail: chakanjan@hotmail.com and aceco@caluniv.ac.in

Educational Qualifications

B.Sc. (Economics), 1987. St. Xaviers College, University of Calcutta. M.Sc. (Economics), 1987-89. University of Calcutta Ph.D. (Economics), 1991-1996. University of California, Riverside, USA

Job Profile

(i) Research Associate from December 1996 - January 1997 at the Center forAdvanced Studies, Department of Economics, Presidency College, University ofCalcutta.

(ii) Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune from February 1997 - June1998.

(iii) The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of Indian Business School, Calcuttafrom June 1998 September 2000.

(iv) Department of Economics, University of Calcutta from 2000 September onwards.

Visiting Faculty

Department of Economics, University of Calcutta: 1998-99 B.TECH at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur: 1999-2000 Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of Indian Business School, Calcutta: 2000-

2001. Management Department of Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur: 2001-02. Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India: 2000-2002. Globsyn Business School, Calcutta: 2003-2008. Management Department, University of Calcutta: 2011-12. Praxis Business School: 2009-.

Award

(1) Dr V K R V Rao Prize in Social Science Research in Economics for theyear 2008 awarded by Indian Council of Social Science Research,Government of India and ISEC, Bangalore.

(2) Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Award for 1995-96 given by Phi Beta KappaAlumni in Southern California (Alpha Association).

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Teaching Experience

Basic Microeconomics, Basic Macroeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, LaborEconomics, Marxian Economics, Indian Economics, Political Economy of Development,Economic History of Ideas, Risk Management and International Finance, Gender Studies.

Areas of Research Interest

Marxian Economics, Development Economics, Indian Economics, History of EconomicIdeas, Financial Economics, Globalization, Gender Studies, Political Philosophy.

Published Books

The Indian Economy in Transition: Globalization, Capitalism and Development .(edited with Anup Kumar Dhar and Byasdeb Dasgupta). Cambridge University Press:Cambridge. 2014. Forthcoming.

Development on Trial: Shrinking Space for the Periphery (edited with Sunanda Sen).Orient Blackswan. 2013.

Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective (edited with SarmilaBanerjee). Springer: New Delhi. 2013.

World of the Third and Global Capitalism (with Anup Kumar Dhar and StephenCullenberg). 2012. World View Press: New Delhi.

Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to World of theThird (with Anup Kumar Dhar). Routledge: London and New York. 2009.

Kothopokothane Marx o Rabindranath: Unnoin O Bikalpo (A Conversation Between Marx and Rabindranath: Development and Alternative) (with Anup Kumar Dhar).2008. Ganchil: Kolkata.

Transition and Development in India (with Stephen Cullenberg). Routledge: NewYork. 2003.

Margin of the Margin: A Profile of an Unrepentant Post-Colonial Collaborator (withAjit Chaudhury and Dipankar Das). 2000. Anustup: Calcutta.

Monograph Class Trouble (with Stephen Cullenberg & Anup Kumar Dhar). 2007. Sanhati:

Kolkata.

Guest Editor

Guest editor of the issue Of Development Critique and Beyond for the journal Margins VOL1, No. II, August 2001.

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Articles in Books and Edited Volumes

World of the Third (with Anup Dhar) in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialismand Anti-Imperialism (ed. Sar Maty B and Immanuel Ness). Palgrave Macmillan.2014. Forthcoming.

Wither the Political in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti- Imperialism (ed. Sar Maty B and Immanuel Ness). Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.Forthcoming.

Has the US Economic Crisis Laid the Foundation of a Left Movement?Provincialising American Studies after 9/11: A Third World Perspective (ed. AnindyaPurakayastha). Authors Press, Delhi in 2014. Forthcoming.

Disinterring the National Commissions on Labour Report: A Marxist Perspective(with Byasdeb Dasgupta) in Development on Trial: Shrinking Space for the Periphery (edited by Anjan Chakrabarti and Sunanda Sen). Orient Blackswan Private Limited.2013.

Rethinking and Theorizing the Indian State in the context of New Economic Map(with Anup Kumar Dhar) in Development and Sustainability: India in a GlobalPerspective (edited by Anjan Chakrabarti and Sarmila Banerjee). Springer: NewDelhi. 2013

The Political Economy of Mental Health in India (with Anup Kumar Dhar andPratiksha Banerjee) in Sarmila Banerjee and Anjan Chakrabarti (ed.). Developmentand Sustainability: India in a Global Context. Springer: New Delhi. 2013.

Rethinking the Falling Rate of Profit and the Crisis of Capitalism in Non-mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy: Finance and Labor , edited byByasdeb Dasgupta. Routledge: London. 2013.

Foreword in Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes: An Empirical Analysis byGagari Chakrabarti and Chirakalpa Sen. Springer. 2012.

Orientalism and Transition in India in the Era of Globalization (with StephenCullenberg and Anup Kumar Dhar) in Immigration and Migration, Social Change,and Cultural Transformation , edited by Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and PatriciaPloesch, 2007, Macmillan Palgrave.

Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Examples from the Rural Sectors inIndia and Kenya, (with Stephen Cullenberg and Mwangi wa Githinji), in Human

Development in the Era of Globalization , (ed. James Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg,Prasanta Pattanaik, Robert Pollin), 2006. Edgar Elgar.

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Development and Class Transition in India: A New Perspective (with StephenCullenberg). 2001. In Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Political Economy .Ed. Kathy Gibson, Julie Graham, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff. DukeUniversity Press.

Journal Articles

The Althusser-Lacan Correspondence: Grundri sse for Psycho-Social Studies?

(with Anup Kumar Dhar). 2014. Psychotherapy and Politics International . John

Wiley and Sons. Forthcoming.

The Sociological Imagination of Dhurjati Prasad Mukerji: Beyond

Hermeneutics and Positivism (with Debarshi Talukdar). 2014. Economic andPolitical Weekly . Vol - XLIX No. 9, March 01. Social Funds, Poverty Management and Subjectification: Beyond the World

Bank Approach (with Anup Kumar Dhar). 2013. Cambridge Journal of Economics . Oxford Journals 37 (5 ). advance access: doi: 10.1093/ cje /bes077, firstpublished online: February 28, 2013 .

Interrogating Inclusive Development in India's Transition Process (with AnupKumar Dhar). 2012. "Collegium Antropologicum . Published jointly by CroatianAnthropological Society, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, CroatianAssociation of Medical Anthropology, Commission on Medical Anthropology andEpidemiology of the International Union of Anthropological and EthnologicalSciences. Vol.36 No.4 December 2012.

Indian Communist Movement at Crossroads: A Marxian Assessment. 2012.Rethinking Marxism . Taylor and Francis 24 (3). Taylor and Francis.

Gravel in the Shoe: National ism and World of the Third (with Anup KumarDhar). 2012. Re thinking Marxism 24(1). Taylor and Francis.

Making and Unmaking of (In)formal Sector. Critical Sociology . 2010, Vol 36(3). Sage publications.

'Dynamics of Emerging India's Banking Sector Assets: A Simple Model' (with SMallik, A Sarkar, KK Ray and TD Chaudhury), Journal of Asset Management ,2010 (April). Palgrave Macmillan.

Global Order and the New Economic Policy in India: The (Post)Colonialformation of the Small Scale Sector in India (with Stephen Cullenberg and AjitChaudhury). Cambridge Journal of Economics , 2009, 33 (6). Oxford Journals.

Rethinking Poverty: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty Eradication (withStephen Cullenberg and Anup Kumar Dhar), Rethinking Marxism , 2008 ((4)(special issue). Taylor and Francis.

Development, Capitalism and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter withRabindranath Tagore on the Co-operative Principles (with Anup Kumar Dhar).

Rethinking Marxism , 2008, 20 (3). Taylor and Francis. Labor, Class and Economy: Rethinking Trade Union Struggle (with Anup

Kumar Dhar), Economic and Political Weekly , 2008 (May 31 st), Vol. XLIII No 22.

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Disinterring the National Commissions on Labour Report: A MarxistPerspective (with Byasdeb Dasgupta). Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. XLIINo. 21, 2007.

Childrens Working World through the Lens of Class (with Anup Kumar Dhar). Journal of Social and Economic Development , 2007, Vol. 9 No 2.

Marxian Development versus Bourgeois Development: What is to be Done?(with Anup Kumar Dhar) in Other Voice (February), 2007.

A Mathematical Statistical Model for Emerging Stock Markets (with SoumitraMallik, Amitava Sarkar, Kalyan K Ray and Tamal Datta Chaudhury), Journal of

Asset Management , 2007 (January). Palgrave Macmillan. Revisiting Transition and Development in India, (with Stephen Cullenberg), Rethinking Marxism , 2007 (January). Taylor and Francis.

Modernism and the Lacanian Real (with Anup Kumar Dhar) in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2006, No 3.

Imperialism in the Age of Empire: Global Capitalist Hegemony and theForeclosure of Class in Other Voice (January), 2005.

Transition and Development: A Marxian Critique of the Subaltern Studies (withStephen Cullenberg). 2001. Vol1, No II, Margins (August).

Class and Need: Towards a Post-Modern Development Economics. 2001. Vol1,No II, Margins (August).

Mutual Funds Industry in India: An In-depth Look into the Problems ofCredibility, Risk and Brand (with Harsh Rungta). 2000. ICFAI Journal of AppliedFinance 6 (2).

Philosophy in Economics: A Crash Course Type Encounter. 2000. Margins

(February). The Market Economy and Marxist Economists: Through the Lens of a Housewife(with Ajit Chaudhury). 2000. Rethinking Marxism Volume 12, No. 2. Taylor andFrancis.

Confronting the Indian Modes of Production Debate: An Unhappy Encounter of aThird Kind. 1998. Artha Vijnana XL (2), June.

Can the Sa(va)ge Speak? (with Ajit Chaudhury). 1996/97. Rethinking Marxism 9(2). Taylor and Francis.

Book Review

1. Searching for Imperialism in the Era of Globalization. Review of The Politicsof Imperialism and Counterstrategies by Pratyush Chandra, Anuradha Ghosh andRavi Kumar in Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Science , Vol 1, No 3,2005.

2. Review of Doing Development Research by Vandana Desai and RobertPotter in Journal of Social and Economic Development . Vol. 9, January-June No1, 2007.

3. Review of Globalisation An Anti-Text: A Local View by Pranab Kanti Basuin Economic and Political Weekly . 27 th February-5 th March, 2010.

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4. Market System of Capitalism on Trial. 2014. Economic and Political Weekly .Vol - XLIX No. 11, March 15 .

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

Are the New Economy Stocks Independent of the Economy: A Comparison of USA andIndia (with Chakrabarti, G. And Sarkar, A.), 16th National Scientific Conference ofItalian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems, PARMA, 21-23June 2007, available at http://hdl.handle.net/1889/906.

Web Articles

1. India and the Politics of Corruption, Philosophers for Change , February 4 th,2014.

2. Class and Need: Social Surplus and Marxian theorization of Development,Philosophers for Change , November 5, 2013

3. The Faltering Miracle Story of India, Radical Notes , October 25, 2012. Alsopublished in Philosophers for Change , 1 st November, 2012.

4. Democracy and the Marxian Political: Beyond 'Statism' and the 'Dictatorship ofthe Proletariat (with Anup Kumar Dhar), Radical Notes , Friday, 30 April 2010

5. The Unending Saga of Land Acquisition in West Bengal: When Enemies MakeStrange Bedfellows, Radical Notes , Monday, 05 October 2009.

6. The Return of the Repressed: Explanation of the Left Front defeat in WestBengal, Radical Notes, Thursday, 21 May 2009

Membership and Affiliations

Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA)

Reviewer

Books and Journals: Taylor and Francis, Sage publications, Orient Blackswan, OxfordUniversity Press.

Project

Indian Council of Social Science Research

Topic: Class and Caste: In Need of a Theoretical and Empirical Re-Examination.Duration: April 2014-2016.

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Indian Council of Social Science Research

Topic: A Multi-Dimensional Study of Imperial Order and Its Journey towardsNeoliberal Imperialism under Globalization.Duration: April 2012 to April 2014.

Planning Commission, Government of India

Topic: Financial Fragility, Asset Bubbles, Capital Structure and the Rate of EconomicGrowth: A Study of the Indian Economy, 1970-2000.Duration: August 2000- June 2001.

Fellow

1. Sir Ratan Tata Trust Fellowship, Indian Institute of Social and EconomicChange (Bangalore)

Topic: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment of PensionFunds in IndiaDuration: December 2008-April 2009

2. DRS Fellow, UGC, Kalyani University

Duration: May 2009

Academic Member

Secretary and Member of the Governing Body, Indian Institute ofDevelopment Studies, Kolkata.

Chairperson (2009-2013), Undergraduate Board of Studies in Economics,Calcutta University.

Current Member of the Ph.D. Committee in Economics, Calcutta University

Current Member of Academic Committee of the Womens Studies ResearchCentre, Calcutta University Current Member of Academic Council, Post-Graduate Diploma in

Management, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata. Member of the Undergraduate Board of Studies in Economics, St. Xaviers

College (Autonomous), Calcutta University for the period 2005-08. Member of the Academic Committee for Postgraduate (Applied Economics),

Presidency College/University, 2009-12.

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Some Major Conferences and Talks (Participated and/or conferencepapers accepted and discussed)

Commentator on a Paper at the American Economic Association Conference (LosAngeles), 1992-93.

Global Order and the New Economic Policy in India: The (Post)Colonialformation of the Small Scale Sector in India at University of Leeds, UK for aconference on Postcoloniality (June 2002)

Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Examples from the Rural Sectors

in India and Kenya. (with Stephen Cullenberg, and Mwangi wa Githinji).Organized by Political Economy Research Institute on Egalitarian Developmentin the Era of Globalization at University of Massachusetts Amherst (in April2004).

Global Capital and Reserve Army of Labour. Organized by the Indo DutchProgram on Alternative Development on Political Economy of Development inthe Age of Globalisation (December, 2004) at Kolkata.

Disinterring National Commissions of Labour Report. Organized by Indo DutchProgram on Globalization, Labor, Flexibility and Security organized by theAcademy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi (March, 2006)

Poverty and Post-Developmentalism: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty

Eradication (with Stephen Cullenberg). Organised by AESA held at Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst (October 2006). A Class Theory of Globalisation, conference organized by Department of

Sociology, Calcutta University 2007 (January) Poverty and Post-Developmentalism: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty

Eradication (with Stephen Cullenberg). Organised by ICPAE to be held at IowaUniversity (July 2007).

Are the New Economy Stocks Independent of the Economy: A Comparison ofUSA and India (with Sarkar, A. and G. Chakrabarti) in 16th National ScientificConference of Italian Association for the Study of Comparative EconomicSystems, PARMA, 21-23 June 2007

Are the New Economy Stocks Independent of the Economy? Comparison ofUSA and India (with Chakrabarti, G. and A. Sarkar) in 5th InternationalConference on Accounting and Finance in Transition, University of GreenwichBusiness School, London., 12-14 July 2007

New Economy Stocks: Initiation of a New Rule across the Globe, (with Sarkar,A. and Chakrabarti, G.) in 15 th World Congress of International EconomicAssociation, Turkey, June, 2008.

The Methodological Problem of Integration in Economics: A PreliminaryExamination of the Individual in a conference organized by Centre forContemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with Sir Ratan TataTrust. (June 23 2009)

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Cooperation versus Collective in Rabindranath Tagore in Rabindracharcha:Naba Prekhite, Bengali Department of Calcutta University (March 25, 2010).

Individual, Cooperation and Collective: A Tagorean Interpretation of EthicalEconomy in Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (October 25, 2010).

Beyond Heteronormativity: Class inside Household in the UGC SponsoredNational Conference on Women and Spaces: Engendering and Regendering

Identities organized by Vidyasagar Evening College in collaboration withRamakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark (29th-30th August, 2011).

Interrogating Inclusive Development in Indias Transition Process in aninternational workshop on Anthropology of Transition and Tradition held inHvar, Croatia organized by The Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York; Institute ofAnthropological Research, Zagreb; School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science,Loughborough and Croatia Anthropological Society. (September 12 th 14 th,2012).

Three talks on Emerging Trends in the Indian Macroeconomic Scenario andRole of Planning Role of Planning in a conference "Basic Economic Concepts"organized by Centre for Economics & Finance , Administrative Staff College ofIndia (ASCI), Hyderabad. (May 20-21, 2013).

Participated in book discussion on World of the Third and Global Capitalismorganized by Rethinking Marxism in a conference titled Surplus, Solidarity andSufficiency, held at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (September 19-22,2013).

India in Transition: Neo-liberalism, Capitalism and Development in a NationalConference on Indias Political Economy in Transition: The Crisis ofGovernance, Democracy and Development organized by Department of PoliticalScience Goa University, Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla and IndianCouncil for Social Science Research, New Delhi, held at Goa University, India(21-22nd December 2013).