| New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change Contributor(s): McCartney, Matthew (Editor), Zaidi, S. Akbar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 110848655X ISBN-13: 9781108486552 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - General - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions |
| Dewey: 330.954 |
| LCCN: 2019033476 |
| Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.52" W x 9.4" (1.00 lbs) 286 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian-military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zaidi, S. Akbar: - S. Akbar Zaidi is Professor at Columbia University, New York, and is also an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. His most recent book is Issues in Pakistan's Economy: A Political Economy Perspective (3rd edition, 2015).McCartney, Matthew: - Matthew McCartney is Director of South Asian Studies and Associate Professor in the Political Economy and Human Development of India at the University of Oxford. His two most recent books are Economic Growth and Development: A Comparative Introduction (2015) and Pakistan: The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State, 1951-2008 (2009). |
