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VOLUME I
Overview
– Scott C. Beardsley, Sheila Bonini, Lenny Mendonca and Jerry Oppenheim “A New Era for
Business” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2007
– Rishikesha T. Krishnan “How to Manage Government and Influence Politics” Sensex, April-
June 2009
The Corporation
Milton Friedman “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits”, New York
Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Joel Bakan “The Corporation’s Rise to Dominance” [Chapter 1 from Joel Bakan The
Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Free Press, 2004]
Ian Davis “The Biggest Contract” The Economist May 26, 2005
Merck Case A
Role of Government
Joseph Stiglitz “The Public Sector in a Mixed Economy” [Chapter 1 in Joseph E. Stiglitz The
Economics of the Public Sector (3rd edition), W.W. Norton, 1999
Milton Friedman Excerpts from Capitalism and Freedom (2d Ed.) University of Chicago
Press, 1982.
Northcote Parkinson C “Parkinson’s Law” This article first appeared in The Economist,
November 1955.
Regulation
Michael Lewis, “The End,” Conde Nast: Portfolio, December 2008. Available at:
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-
Wall-Streets-Boom
David Leonhardt, “The Looting of America’s Coffers,” New York Times, March 11, 2009
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/business/economy/11leonhardt.html
Rob Norton, Unintended Consequences. Available at:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/UnintendedConsequences.html
CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment and Economic Regulation, Status of Competition
and Regulation in India, 2007.
Interest Groups
Mancur Olson “The Logic” [Chapter 3 in The Rise & Decline of Nations: Economic Growth,
Stagflation, Social Rigidities, Yale University Press, 1982] pages 17-29.
Pranab Bardhan “Sharing the Spoils; group equity, development and democracy” [From Atul
Kohli (ed.) The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2001]
Rajeshwari Deshpande “Social Movements in Crisis?” [From Rajendra Vora and Suhas
Palshikar (eds.) Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage Publications, 2004]
Social Capital
Robert Putnam “The Prosperous Community,” The American Prospect, Vol. 4, No. 13,
March 21, 1993.
Deborah Stone. “The Market and the Polis” from Policy Paradox WW Norton, NY, 1997.
Ashutosh Varshney “Introduction” [In Ethnic Conflict & Civic Life]
Media
David Baron “News Media & Nonmarket Issues”, Business and its Environment, 3rd edition,
Prentice Hall, 2000.
Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky “A Propaganda Model” [from Edward Herman &
Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]
Mukul Sharma “Media and Governance” Seminar [From www.india-seminar.com]
Siddharth Varadarajan “Caste matters in the Indian media”, The Hindu, 3 June 2006.
Available at: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/06/03/stories/2006060301841000.htm
VOLUME II
Indian Politics
– Shashi Tharoor “From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond: Democracy and Identity in
Today’s India”, Center for the Advanced Study of India, Occasional Paper No. 21, July 2004
– Ramachandra Guha “Ideas of India”, “Rights” [From India After Gandhi, Macmillan, 2007]
– Rajeev Gowda and E Sridharan (2007). “Political Parties in India.” In State of India's
Democracy, Larry Diamond, Sumit Ganguly, and Marc Plattner (editors), Johns Hopkins
University Press.
Indian Economy
Barbara Harriss-White “India’s Informal Economy: Facing the Twenty-First Century” [In
Kaushik Basu (ed.) India’s Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and
Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2004]
Sunil Bharti Mittal “India’s New Entrepreneurial Classes: The High Growth Economy and
Why it is Sustainable”, Center for the Advanced Study of India, Occasional Paper Number
25, February 2006
Shyam Babu. D “India’s liberalisation and the Dalits”, Chatham House, August 2004.
Available at: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/download/-
/id/210/file/3182_wpaug04.pdf
Leela Fernandes, India’s New Middle Class, Selected Sections
Harish Damodaran, “Banias and Beyond: The Dynamics of Caste and Big Business in
Modern India,” Working Paper, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of
Pennsylvania. Available at: http://www2.ssc.upenn.edu/research/papers/WP-Damodaran.pdf
Indian Society
Madhu Kishwar “Traditional Female Moral Exemplars in India”. This article is reprinted with
permission of the Association for Asian Studies, Inc., the publisher of Education About Asia
(EAA).
Available at: http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_es/s_es_kishw_EAA.htm
MN Srinivas “Pangs of Change” Frontline, Vol. 14: No. 16 : Aug. 9-22, 1997. Available at:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1416/14160670.htm
Amartya Sen, “Democracy and Secularism in India”[In Kaushik Basu (ed.) India’s Emerging
Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond, Oxford University Press,
2004]
Pratap Bhanu Mehta “Affirmation without Reservation” Economic & Political Weekly July 3,
2004.
Yogendra Yadav and Satish Deshpande “Redesigning Affirmative Action” Economic and
Political Weekly
Globalization
– Samuel Huntington “The Clash of Civilizations” Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993
– Thomas Friedman “It’s a Flat World After All” New York Times April 3, 2005
– Jagdish Bhagwati “Corporations: Predatory or Beneficial?” From In Defense of Globalization
Oxford University Press, 2004.
– Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris “The True Clash of Civilizations” Foreign Policy
March/April 2003
– A.R. Vasavi, Serviced From India : The Making of India's Global Youth Workforce" in
Upadhya and Vasavi (eds) In an Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and workers in
India's Information Technology Industry. (Routledge, 2008)
– Supriya RoyChowdhury, " Labour and Globalization", Economic and Political Weekly,
January 3, 2004.
Urbanization
– Dunu Roy “Imaginary Cities” Combat Law, Vol. 3, Issue 3, September-October 2004
BATF Team “Bangalore: Urban Lessons”
– Richard Florida “The Rise of the Creative Class” Washington Monthly, May 2002.
– Asian Development Bank: Managing Asia’s Cities. Chapter 1: Asia’s Urban Challenge. 2008.
Agrarian Crisis and the Rural Economy
P. Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, Penguin University Press, 1996, p. 317-324.
Jeffrey Sachs “The End of Poverty” Time, March 14, 2005.
Knowledge@Wharton interview with M. Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank.
– C.K. Prahalad & Allen Hammond “Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably” Harvard Business
Review September 2002