Selected Writings
by Krishna, Raj; Krishna, VijayFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-12-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
This volume brings together a selection of the academic writings of noted Indian economist, the late Professor Raj Krishna. The writings cover two broad themes, agricultural economics and unemployment in India, and address both methodological and policy-oriented issues.
Author Biography
Raj Krishna was teaching at the Delhi School of Economics at the time of his death in 1985. He also taught at MIT and the Food Research Institute at Stanford.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Farm Supply Response in India-Pakistan: A Case Study of the Punjab Region | p. 7 |
| The Marketable Surplus Function for a Subsistence Crop: An Analysis with Indian Data | p. 20 |
| The Growth of Aggregate Agricultural Output in Punjab | p. 37 |
| Agricultural Price Policy and Economic Development | p. 49 |
| Government Operation in Foodgrains | p. 91 |
| Some Aspects of Wheat and Rice Price Policy in India (jointly with G. S. Raychaudhuri) | p. 109 |
| Policy Modelling of A Dual Grain Market: The Case of Wheat in India (jointly with Ajay Chhibber) | p. 157 |
| Towards a Theory of Optimum Land Reform for a Dualistic Agriculture | p. 251 |
| Intersectoral Equity and Agricultural Taxation in India | p. 273 |
| Unemployment in India | p. 301 |
| Rural Unemployment: A Survey of Concepts and Estimates for India | p. 328 |
| Urban Unemployment: A Survey of Estimates for India | p. 385 |
| A Model of the Unemployment Trap with Policy Implications | p. 425 |
| Measurement of the Direct and Indirect Employment Effects of Agricultural Growth with Technical Change | p. 437 |
| The Published Works of Raj Krishna: A Chronological Bibliography | p. 473 |
| Interviews and Radio Broadcasts | p. 474 |
| Index | p. 475 |
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