The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting Impact

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Arvind Panagariya is a Professor of Economics in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He was the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India, in the rank of a cabinet minister. He has authored more than 20 books, published professional articles in all the top Economics journals, and written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the WSJ. In 2012, the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan, its third highest honor in any field.

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This book explores India's unique experiment building a socialist economic system alongside a democratic political system. It describes the critical role of Jawaharlal Nehru's socialist thought in the design of this system, how this shaped the economy during his lifetime, and how it has continued to influence policy decisions ever since.