Overview for Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism
The observation 'Capitalism is dead; long live capitalism' sets the tenor for this book. With non-existent socialisms and the recent success of capitalist China, the third world is today integrated into one global capitalist network. The emergence of capitalism as the hegemonic discourse has evoked contradictory reactions: Euphoria for the proponents and dismay among the detractors. Yet, both have unquestionably accepted the system as capitalism. This book foregrounds the phenomenon of exclusion and marginalization of a significantly large part of the population from the formal economy as integral to post-colonial capitalist development, and then seeks to demonstrate how it inevitably shapes post-colonial capitalism as a complex regime of power with its unique modalities. The end result is a discourse, drawing on Marx and Foucault, that envisages capitalist formation in the post-colonial world, albeit in an entirely different light, in the era of globalization.
Kalyan Sanyal (Author)
Kalyan sanyal is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta. Prior to this he was Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, USA and Visiting Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada; Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate Institute for International Economic Studies, Geneva; Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economic Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden; Raymond Ball Fellow, University of Rochester, USA; and Rush Rees Fellow, University of Rochester, USA. He has previously published papers in professional journals including The American Economic Review, Economica, Rethinking Marxism; and chapters and articles in edited volumes.
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