This paper, adopting a political-economy approach, examines the evolution of electric-power policy in India by drawing linkages between global and local/national discourses, of development. The study focuses on the objectives and goals of the post-colonial developmental state of India, and examines the transition of India’s electricity policy regime from Keynesianism to neoliberalism. I argue t...

THE COVID pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by answers that their own government given to these questions, resorting instead a libertarian rhetoric argue for more permissive approach public health regulation. As several commentators pointed out, there is marked asymmetry in this Conservative hostility legal restricti...

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Review of Neil Vallelly, Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production Uselessness. Futility as both dominant structure feeling fulcrum for political action in twilight neoliberalism.