[1224] in peace2
A talk by Rajni Bakshi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Mon Nov 12 16:22:38 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:21:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
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AID and ASHA
presents
The Market - What can we do about it
by Rajni Bakshi
Rm 4-231, MIT
Nov. 13 (Tuesday), 7.00pm
Rajni Bakshi is a Mumbai-based free-lance journalist.
Her recent book "Bapu Kuti: Journeys in the
Rediscovery of Gandhi" is immensely popular among
volunteers for its upbeat note and unique chronicles
of the lives of social activists, scientists and
artists linked by the thread of Gandhian ideals.
A interview is at:
http://www.indiatogether.org/interviews/rajni.htm
Following is an excerpt from a recent article on
"Market Worries" which will give a flavor of the
issues she is currently writing about.
Sometimes, people who seem to have nothing in common
suddenly find that they share a worry. The much
exalted and dreaded Market is today having this effect
on people as diverse as Lal Singh, David Jenkins,
Eisuke
Sakakibara and George Soros.
As the names suggest these people come from different
parts of the globe. The realities they inhabit are in
many ways planets apart. Lal Singh is a marginal
farmer in Rajasthan and leading activist of a
political action
group. Davind Jenkins, is a retired Bishop of the
Church of England. Eisuke Sakakibara, is a highly
reputed Japanese economist and a former minister of
the Japanese government. George Soros is a
multi-billionaire and possibly the most successful
money manager of our times.
In very different ways all of them are bothered about
the ways in which the Market seems to have taken over
our lives. This anxiety was captured by the title
Everything for Sale a 1996 book by Robert Kuttner, a
columnist for Business Week magazine.
This Market with a capital M lies at the very heart of
the globalisation that is being pushed and resisted
today. This is a concept, an invisible hand, as
opposed to the traditional market which was primarily
a physical place where people met to exchange goods
and services. The self-regulating Market, governed
coldly by the laws of demand and supply, is a recent
phenomenon in the human civilizational journey, a
by-product of the modern industrial revolution.
For more info, contact Payal Parekh at parekh@pimms.mit.edu
617.253.7967
