While the main objective of Professor C T Kurien's latest book WEALTH and ILLFARE: An Expedition into Real Life Economics is to guide readers interested in the many puzzling economic problems but without any acquaintance with the subject, it breaks fresh ground in the approach to the discipline itself. Taking the position that the economy, the field of enquiry of economics, is an evolving entity becoming more and more complex as it develops. Professor Kurien identifies the ownership and control over the means of production, the network of intermediaries and the asymmetry of information as the clues in analysing real life economies A refreshingly different approach one of India's leading economists to an important field of study which affects the lives of all human beings.
