Sanjukta Das Gupta and Raj Shekhar Basu, Narratives from the Margins

Abstract

In conclusion, one can safely say that the book achieves its objective of making its readers more informed about the issues dealt with in the book as well as providing possible, sustainable solutions to the problems that are created by these phenomena. The fluent, lucid and easily comprehensible style of writing about core economic issue and the occasional personal anecdotes of the authors shared in the text make it all the more relatable. The book thus becomes more approachable to even those people who do not have a degree in economics or sociology. On every page, the authors have made sincere efforts to shed muchneeded light upon the misrepresentations that bad economics brings to public discussions and debates while methodically deconstructing their incorrect assumptions or complex economic theories that are inapplicable in the concerned social context. In their words, the ultimate objective of creating this literature is ‘to emphasise that there are no iron laws of economics keeping us from building a more humane world’. The book succeeds to a reasonable extent in convincing the reader that this is possible.