The Ontological Principles of Gandhian Political Economy
Abstract
Like the quixotic character that never knew that he was speaking all through his life in pure and simple prose, Gandhi never realized that what he was preaching and practicing throughout his life was in fact the basic principles and theories that could be subsumed under the contemporary discipline of political economy (PE). Gandhian political economy (GPE) is replete with many of the characteristics of classical and Marxian political economy and these are mentioned at relevant places throughout this work. It also assimilates some of the major features of contemporary heterodox political economy, in particular, the class analysis of Neo‐Marxism; gender, ethnicity and class analysis of Feminist political economy; the analysis of justice, ethics and institutional trust of social political economy; the analysis of the significance of institutions and institutional change of the institutional‐evolutionary political economy; and the importance of the interdisciplinary focus on contemporary issues like development and international political economy.
Citation
Ghosh, B.N. (2005), "The Ontological Principles of Gandhian Political Economy", Humanomics, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 60-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018901
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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