Contents: Preface. Foreword. I. Economic Ideas of Professor A.K. Dasgupta General Issues: 1. Economic ideas of Professor A.K. Dasgupta/Ashis Dasgupta. 2. Professor Amiya Kumar Dasgupta: a legend in economics/Suresh Chandra Srivastava. 3. Economics of Professor A.K. Dasgupta/Harvinder Kaur. 4. Amiya Kumar Dasgupta: an economist par excellence/Sukumar Basu. 5. Professor A.K. Dasgupta: a complete economist/M.S. Kallur, Rasure Khemling and T.R. Gurubasappa. 6. Professor A.K. Dasgupta: the eminent economist/Arun Kumar Sinha. 7. The economic ideas of professor A.K. Dasgupta/Mohd. Saeed Khan. 8. Economics of A.K. Dasgupta: a note/Radhey Mohan Prasad. 9. Is a value-neutral economic science possible? a note on the views of Professor A.K. Dasgupta/Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay. 10. Professor A.K. Dasgupta on equilibrium/A.K. Gaur. II. Economic Ideas of Professor A.K. Dasgupta: Specific Issues: 11. Economic surplus and Professor A.K. Dasgupta: a note/Vijay Sankar Paswan, Supriya and Vinod Choudhury. 12. Gains from trade revisited--a note in honor of Professor A.K. Dasgupta/Biman Chandra De. 13. A.K. Dasgupta and Keynes/Smriti Mukherjee. 14. Economics of a mature capitalist economy: Keynesian economics in the eyes of A.K. Dasgupta/Mausumi Manna. 15. Professor A.K. Dasgupta's economic ideas on capitalism, socialism and planning: some reminiscences/R.S. Nandal, Arjun Singh and K.S. Suhag. 16. Dynamics of class conflict: relevance of Dasgupta's analysis of economic theory and development/Amalesh Banerjee. 17. Professor A.K. Dasgupta's approach to economic development/Bishwa Nath Singh. 18. Economic ideas of Professor A.K. Dasgupta on planning and development policy/Santanu Ghosh and Dilip Ghosh. 19. Dasgupta's approach to wage policy/Sandhyarani Das and R.P. Sarma. 20. Dasgupta's theory of wage policy/Rekha R. Gaonkar. 21. Professor A.K. Dasgupta's approach to the theory of wage policy: a note/Shankar Sah and Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. 22. Professor A.K. Dasgupta's thoughts of public finance: a note/Navjot Dhingra. 23. A.K. Dasgupta's view on teaching of economics/Himansu Desai. Index.

"Economic Ideas of Professor A.K. Dasgupta--A Centenary Tribute is an edited volume prepared from Papers contributed to one of the technical sessions of the IEA Conference, (2003) at Kolhapur devoted to this theme on the occasion of birth centenary of Professor Amiya Kumar Dasgupta. Professor Amiya Kumar Dasgupta has been regarded as the economist of economists and the first Indian to contribute in the area of theoretical economics. He had the unique opportunity to observe almost equally the Indian economy both in pre and post independence era.

This book, as a centenary tribute to his contributions has attempted to provide a glimpse of his multidirectional economic ideas within the span of 23 articles included in it." (jacket)