As nations across the globe grapple with wars, ecological destruction, and a market-centric approach to garner more profits and achieve dominance, Quest for Planetary Well-Being: Essays in Honour of M. V. Nadkarni, a volume published by Palgrave Macmillan, emphasises that human well-being is inseparable from the vitality of the planet itself, and provides ethical dimensions to curb human greed.
The book, edited by two social scientists — Professors Ananta Giri and R.S. Deshpande — is a festschrift to economist M.V. Nadkarni (MVN), whose academic work spans economics, sociology, political economy, environment, ethics, religion, and Gandhian thought. His signature clothing is a khadi kurta.
Prof. MVN, a former vice-chancellor of Gulbarga University, who turned 87 on February 23, has to his credit 40 books and over 150 papers in academic journals and edited volumes in India and abroad.
Quest for Planetary Well-Being: Essays in Honour of M. V. Nadkarni contains 29 essays extending over 600 pages in three major parts, reflecting the overall health and resilience of the earth’s inter-connected systems. These well-researched essays cover intrinsic ecological, social, and economic issues that have a strong bearing on humanity’s ability to flourish within those boundaries.
