Political Economy and Information Capitalism in India

1. Introduction: Information Capitalism
Govindan Parayil

2. ICTs and Decoupled Development: Theories, Trajectories and Transitions
Anthony P. D’Costa

3. The Political Economy of IT-driven Outsourcing
C. P. Chandrasekhar

4. ICTs for the Rural Poor: Civil Society and Cyber-Libertarian Developmentalism in India
T. T. Sreekumar

5. The Perils of Excessive Export Orientation
K. J. Joseph

6. Informational Development in Rural Areas: Some Evidence from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
Jose Jayan Thomas

7. Building a ‘Soft Region’ on Hard Legacies: The Informational Economy in Andhra Pradesh, India
Kyle Eischen

8. The Political Economy of the Indian Software Industry
Balaji Parthasarathy

9. Working with Uncertainty in the IT Industry
Biao Xiang

10. The Political Economy of Informational Development: A Normative Appraisal
Govindan Parayil

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Economy, Asian Economics, Computers and Society, Development Studies