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The great jobs enigma

The first part of the book has four chapters focusing on employment

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Laveesh Bhandari
Employment Growth and Development
Essays on a Changing World Economy 
Deepak Nayyar
Routledge
260 pages; Rs 895

There is much that one can glean from economic theory on how the world economy operates. Within that larger framework, different schools see this evolution highly differently depending upon the degree of emphasis they place on various assumptions and structures. While this is well known, it is also argued by many that understanding economic processes from different lenses helps us take better educated guesses on the best course of action. Deepak Nayyar’s “heterodox and unconventional” approach aims at achieving just this.

Employment generation is