Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

R. Bharadwaj

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The present preoccupation with the Economics of Growth-motivated largely by the problems of the so-called developing countries-has given rise, understandably, to a revival of capital theoretic controversies. An important outcome of the current debate in this connection appears to be a growing awareness of the inadequacies of certain kinds of aggregative analytical devices and an increasing movement towards the adoption of more general, economy-wide, interdependent, disaggregative models, to investigate theoretical and empirical problems of economic development.

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R. Bharadwaj , P. N. Mathur

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With the transformation of the mode of production from primitive self-contained to more elaborate processes leading to specialisation and exchage, the need to investigate the interwoven web of economic inter-dependence, both in its theoretical and empirical aspects, became increasingly important.

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R. Bharadwaj

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The Seminar was inaugurated by Professor D. R. Gadgil. He outlined briefly the tradition of empirical research in Poona from early years. He mentioned in particular the work of the Sarvajanik Sabha in 1875-76 when that body undertook a survey of rural conditions to place the facts before the Famine Commission.

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