This volume puts together selected writings by the Gandhian economist J.C. Kumarappa (1892-1960) in the contemporary context of aggressive neoliberal economics being executed by global corporations with national governments in the role of able facilitators.

The selection covers themes like Kumarappa s economic thought, his politics of anti-imperialism and world peace, his views on religion particularly on Christianity ,his ideas about education, science, agriculture, the village economy and the land question, cottage and large-scale industries and on the socialist models presented by the then Soviet Union and the People s Republic of China. Self-reliance and sustainability are vital themes in his oeuvre; in short, an economy of permanence.