Power matters: essays on institution, politics and society in India/
John Harriss
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 314 p.
'Borderlands of economics' : institutions, politics and culture in the explanation of economic change -- Making out on limited resources -- Why poor people stay poor in rural south India -- Rural inequality matters : constraints on growth linkages from agriculture -- Between economism and post-modernism : reflections on research on 'agrarian change' in India -- 'Widening the radius of trust' : ethnographic explorations of trust and Indian business -- For an anthropology of the modern Indian state -- Do political regimes matter? Poverty reduction and regime differences across India -- Public action and the dialectics of decentralization : against the myth of social capital as 'the missing link in development' -- 'Politics is a dirty river' : But is there a 'new politics' of civil society? : Perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America.