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
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Research Associate from December 1996 - January 1997 at the Center for
Advanced Studies, Department of Economics, Presidency College, University of
Calcutta.
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune from February 1997 - June
1998.
The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of Indian Business School, Calcutta
from June 1998 September 2000.
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: 20002001.
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 the
year 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 Kappa
Alumni in Southern California (Alpha Association).

Teaching Experience
Basic Microeconomics, Basic Macroeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, Labor
Economics, 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 Economic
Ideas, 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 Sarmila
Banerjee). Springer: New Delhi. 2013.
World of the Third and Global Capitalism (with Anup Kumar Dhar and Stephen
Cullenberg). 2012. World View Press: New Delhi.
Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to World of the
Third (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: New
York. 2003.
Margin of the Margin: A Profile of an Unrepentant Post-Colonial Collaborator (with
Ajit 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.

Articles in Books and Edited Volumes

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

Wither the Political in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and AntiImperialism (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. Anindya
Purakayastha). 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 Global
Perspective (edited by Anjan Chakrabarti and Sarmila Banerjee). Springer: New
Delhi. 2013

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

Rethinking the Falling Rate of Profit and the Crisis of Capitalism in Nonmainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy: Finance and Labor, edited by
Byasdeb Dasgupta. Routledge: London. 2013.

Foreword in Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes: An Empirical Analysis by

Gagari Chakrabarti and Chirakalpa Sen. Springer. 2012.

Orientalism and Transition in India in the Era of Globalization (with Stephen

Cullenberg and Anup Kumar Dhar) in Immigration and Migration, Social Change,
and Cultural Transformation, edited by Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia
Ploesch, 2007, Macmillan Palgrave.

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

Development and Class Transition in India: A New Perspective (with Stephen

Cullenberg). 2001. In Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Political Economy.
Ed. Kathy Gibson, Julie Graham, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff. Duke
University Press.

Journal Articles

The Althusser-Lacan Correspondence: Grundrisse 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 and
Political 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, first
published online: February 28, 2013.

Interrogating Inclusive Development in India's Transition Process (with Anup
Kumar Dhar). 2012. "Collegium Antropologicum. Published jointly by Croatian
Anthropological Society, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatian
Association of Medical Anthropology, Commission on Medical Anthropology and
Epidemiology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences. 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: Nationalism and World of the Third (with Anup Kumar
Dhar). 2012. Rethinking 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 S
Mallik, 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)Colonial
formation of the Small Scale Sector in India (with Stephen Cullenberg and Ajit
Chaudhury). Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2009, 33 (6). Oxford Journals.

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

Development, Capitalism and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter with
Rabindranath 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 31st), Vol. XLIII No 22.


Disinterring the National Commissions on Labour Report: A Marxist

Perspective (with Byasdeb Dasgupta). Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLII
No. 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 Soumitra
Mallik, 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 the
Foreclosure of Class in Other Voice (January), 2005.

Transition and Development: A Marxian Critique of the Subaltern Studies (with
Stephen 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 of
Credibility, Risk and Brand (with Harsh Rungta). 2000. ICFAI Journal of Applied
Finance 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 and
Francis.

Confronting the Indian Modes of Production Debate: An Unhappy Encounter of a
Third 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 Politics
of Imperialism and Counterstrategies by Pratyush Chandra, Anuradha Ghosh and
Ravi Kumar in Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Science, Vol 1, No 3,
2005.
2. Review of Doing Development Research by Vandana Desai and Robert
Potter in Journal of Social and Economic Development. Vol. 9, January-June No
1, 2007.
3. Review of Globalisation An Anti-Text: A Local View by Pranab Kanti Basu
in Economic and Political Weekly. 27th February-5th March, 2010.

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 and
India (with Chakrabarti, G. And Sarkar, A.), 16th National Scientific Conference of
Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems, PARMA, 21-23
June 2007, available at http://hdl.handle.net/1889/906.

Web Articles
1. India and the Politics of Corruption, Philosophers for Change, February 4th,
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. Also
published in Philosophers for Change, 1st November, 2012.
4. Democracy and the Marxian Political: Beyond 'Statism' and the 'Dictatorship of
the Proletariat (with Anup Kumar Dhar), Radical Notes, Friday, 30 April 2010
5. The Unending Saga of Land Acquisition in West Bengal: When Enemies Make
Strange Bedfellows, Radical Notes, Monday, 05 October 2009.
6. The Return of the Repressed: Explanation of the Left Front defeat in West
Bengal, 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, Oxford
University 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.


Indian Council of Social Science Research

Topic: A Multi-Dimensional Study of Imperial Order and Its Journey towards
Neoliberal 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 Economic
Growth: 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 Economic
Change (Bangalore)
Topic: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment of Pension
Funds in India
Duration: December 2008-April 2009
2. DRS Fellow, UGC, Kalyani University
Duration: May 2009

Academic Member

Secretary and Member of the Governing Body, Indian Institute of

Development 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 Research
Centre, 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.

Some Major Conferences and Talks (Participated and/or conference

papers accepted and discussed)

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

Global Order and the New Economic Policy in India: The (Post)Colonial
formation of the Small Scale Sector in India at University of Leeds, UK for a
conference 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 Development
in the Era of Globalization at University of Massachusetts Amherst (in April
2004).

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

Disinterring National Commissions of Labour Report. Organized by Indo Dutch
Program on Globalization, Labor, Flexibility and Security organized by the
Academy 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 University
of 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 Iowa
University (July 2007).

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

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

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

The Methodological Problem of Integration in Economics: A Preliminary
Examination of the Individual in a conference organized by Centre for
Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with Sir Ratan Tata
Trust. (June 23 2009)


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 Ethical
Economy in Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (October 25, 2010).

Beyond Heteronormativity: Class inside Household in the UGC Sponsored
National Conference on Women and Spaces: Engendering and Regendering
Identities organized by Vidyasagar Evening College in collaboration with
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark (29th-30th August, 2011).

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

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

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

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