Public Enterprise at the Crossroads [antikvár]

This book is written in honour of Professor V. V. Ramanadham, and to mark his seventieth birthday. He has written about many of the ideas in it at somé time or other himself. Most of the authors are his personal friends. As someone privileged to be in that position, I hope this book is a fitting tribute to his inspiration. Rama is a man of peace. Gentle, kind, unassuming, yet with the great gift of inspiring others; and of getting things done. To meet him he might not strike you as a dynamic person, until you ask what he has been doing. Then your head will spin. He goes everywhere. And his plans for the future seem to take no account of age or time. He will carry on, surely, for ever. He lives in many worlds. To English speakers he is a distinguished academic whose main focus for the past forty years has been research in the field of public enterprise. He has several books and many articles to his credit, and his latest book, The Economics of Public Enterprise, is a comprehensive work based on his long experience in the field. He has alsó developed a talent for gathering together people from all parts of the world to make intellectual progress in somé aspect of the field, inevitably adding his own striking contributions to the debate. To those who speak Telugu, his native tongue, he is a different man. His poeticái works, plays, operas, novels, stories, and essays of literary criticism mark him as a man of culture, an intellectual of distinction, a thinker on a grand scale. Universities have prescribed his work as textbooks. His plays and operas in the classical Indián style have been widely performed. His academic career began in 1938 as an undergraduate at the Andhra University, Waltair, a coastal town 300 miles east of Hyderabad. Here he alsó took his first doctoral degree, a study of railway fináncé, and for sixteen years from 1941 he served on the Faculty. Between 1949 and 1951 he attended the London School of Economics, where he undertook doctoral research into the just-nationalized electricity supply industry. As a Nuffield Fellow in the UK, he wrote a