This hopeful manifesto draws on Marxist theory to imagine a utopian future beyond work,
scarcity, and capitalism—one where automation replaces manual labor. In the twenty-first …

Coal is on the rise in India: despite the devasting impacts of the climate crisis, the awareness
for land and forest rights, and political talk of a coal phase-out. In this article, we demonstrate …

Placing labor at the center of the global 'land-grab'debate helps sharpen critical insights at
two scales. At the scale of agricultural enterprises, a labor perspective highlights the jobs …

Historically, manufacturing has functioned as the main engine of economic growth and
development. However, recent research raises questions concerning the continued …

A biopolitics of the population, when it succeeds in securing life and wellbeing, is surely
worth having. It has become urgent in rural Asia, where a new round of enclosures has …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

The present inquiry lays a groundwork for the analysis of the net greenhouse gas (GHG)
footprint of oil in the oil-abundant settings. To address the research question, the study puts …

It is entirely befitting that this brief piece of Kaldorian empirics should be included in a
volume dedicated to the memory of Lal Jayawardena. Lal regarded Nicholas Kaldor as his …

The stylized facts show that natural resource prices are highly volatile. The immediate
consequences of such volatility are changes in the labor force's income distribution and …

This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage of
development. By exploiting a large dataset that covers different sectors, we find that in the …