Modern Perspectives on Kautilya's Economics

Annotation

The five papers in this e-book of Humanomics discuss Kautilya's economics of ancient India and are all contributed by Professor Balbir Sihag. The papers relate in a comprehensive way to various aspects of Kautilya's ideas on topics that the economics profession today claims to have inherited from classical and neoclassical, and some macroeconomic origins. This claim of the mainstream origin of economic thought is contested. The claim of economists regarding Adam Smith as the founder of the laws of motion of capitalism is brought to question. The arguments presented on this question are explained by well-documented writings of established thinkers.