Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS - _ Ashok Mitra Monthly Journal of the Amalendu Guha Indian School of Social Sciences IrfanHabib VOLUME 13 JULY-AUGUST Amiya Bagchi NUMBER 7-8 1985 Kishore Theckedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) CONTENTS Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Editorial Note I ] Javeed Alam (Shimla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) On the Political Economy of EDITORIAL BOARD Economic "Liberalisation- Jacob Eapen -pr abhat patnaik Madhu Prasad Some Implications of the New Economic Policy MANAGING EDITOR —Venkatesh Athreya 1 Rajendra Prasad -p^ Economic and Political Consequences EDITOR of the Fund-Bank Strategy Prabhat Patnaik —Sanjaya Baru 27 EDITORIAL OFFICE ^ ^ ^ ^ Problems of the 424, V P House, international Indebtedness of Developing New Delhi-110 001 Economies : Issues and Prospects CIRCULATION AND —Saumitra Chaudhry ADVERTISEMENT B-l. Second Floor LSC, Theoretical Presuppositions for J Block Saket, Liberalisation: A Critique New Delhi-110017 —R> Ramana, Aditya Bhattacharjea SUBSCRIPTION RATES* Computer Policy and a Policy of Computerisation INLAND —P. Purkayastha 3 years : Rs 150 ^^ Aspects of the Ecological Crisis in India 2 years : Rs 120 _, ,, ,,. , Annual: Rs 65 -Shekhar Smgh (Students • Rs 50) South Korean Export Oriented Regime : Institutions and Libraries Context and Characteristics : Rs 100 —R.R. Krishnan Single copy : Rs 12 Economic Liberalisation and Development: The *Rs 3 extra if by cheque Experience of some Latin American Countries FOREIGN —Biswajit Dhar (Annual in U S dollars) DOCUMENT Sea Mail: 30 Statement on Current Economic Policy of the Air Mail: 40 Government and Alternatives Articles and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.