Economic Thinking of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi & Rabindranath Tagore

Modern theory of economic development has evolved over time. During this process of its historical changes there were a number of paradigm shifts - all trying to make the theory more realistic and relevant. It is, of course realized that there are some fundamentals of economic growth on which the entire growth process depends in all circumstances. In this book we have tried to find out to what extent three great men could pin-point those fundamentals. In some cases they succeeded, in other cases there were confusions galore. So far as the fundamentals of economic growth are concerned modern theory of economic development has no difference with the economic thinking of the above three men. But occasionally they deviated from the path which they initially adopted. Herein lies the definite improvement of modern theory over the social and economic thinking of these three great souls of India. We have tried to analyse the problem threadbare. How far we have succeeded our readers will judge.