Research
Poverty and Inequality
Basole A and Basu D (forthcoming) Consumption, Nutrition and Inequality in Maharashtra, 1987 – 2011, in Veena Shatrugna and Abhay Shukla eds., Nutritional Crisis in Maharashtra, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
Basole A and Basu D (2015) Non-Food Expenditures and Consumption Inequality in India, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 36, pp. 43-53.
Basole A and Basu D (2015) Fueling Calorie Intake Decline: Household Level Evidence from Rural India, World Development, Vol. 68, pp. 82-95.
Basole A (2014) Dynamics of Income Inequality in India: Insights from World Top Incomes Database, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No.40, pp.14-17.
Informality and Structural Change
Basole A (2016) The Agrarian Question in India, in Ravi Kumar, ed. Contemporary Readings in Marxism: A Critical Introduction, New Delhi: Aakar Books.
Basole A (2016) Spare Change for Spare Time? Homeworking Women in Banaras, in Saraswati Raju and Santosh Jatrana eds. Women Workers in Urban India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
Basole A, Basu D, and Bhattacharya R (2015) Determinants and Impact of Subcontracting: Evidence from India’s Informal Manufacturing Sector, International Review of Applied Economics, 29:3, pp.374- 402.
Basu D and Basole A (2011) Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part One – Agriculture , Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, pp. 41-58
Basole A and Basu D (2011) Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part Two – Informal Industry , Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, pp. 63-79
Political Economy of Knowledge
Basole A (editor) (2015) Lokavidya Perspectives: A Philosophy of Political Imagination for the Knowledge Age, Aakar Book, New Delhi. Order the book on Flipkart, Table of Contents, Review of the book in EPW by Aseem Shrivastava
Basole A (2015) Authenticity, Innovation and the Geographical Indication in an Artisanal Industry: The Case of the Banarasi Sari, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 18:3/4, pp. 127-149.
Basole A (2015) Knowledge, Work, and Education, in A. Basole ed. Lokavidya Perspectives: A Philosophy of Political Imagination for the Knowledge Age, Aakar Books, New Delhi.
Basole A (2015) Lokavidya Goes Virtual: Indigenous Knowledge in the Gatesian Age, in A. Basole, ed. Lokavidya Perspectives: A Philosophy of Political Imagination for the Knowledge Age, Aakar Books, New Delhi.
Sahasrabudhey S and Basole A (2015) Reinventing the Indian University: Arguing from a lokavidya standpoint, in A. Basole, ed. Lokavidya Perspectives: A Philosophy of Political Imagination for the Knowledge Age, Aakar Books, New Delhi.
Basole A (2014) The Informal Economy from a Knowledge Perspective, Yojana Development Monthly, October 2014.
Basole A (2014) Whose Knowledge Counts? Reinterpreting Gandhi for the Information Age, International Journal of Hindu Studies, 18:3, pp.1-44.
Basole A (2013) Class-biased technical change and Socialism, ReMarx,Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society, 25: 4, pp. 592-601.
Birla S and Basole A (2013) Negotiating (with) English in Mumbai’s Informal Economy, Urban Aspirations in Global Cities Working Paper
Basole A (2013) Gandhian Economics in a Knowledge Society, in Tara Sethia and Anjana Narayan eds. The Living Gandhi:Lessons for Our Times, Penguin India (book chapter)
Basole A (2012) Knowledge, Gender, and Production Relations in India’s Informal Economy. UMass-Amherst, PhD Dissertation.
Basole A (2010) The Technology Question in Lohia, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 45. No. 44, October 30, 2010.
Bhattacharya R and Basole A (2009) The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India, in Rajani Kanth ed. The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global Perspectives, Policy and Prospects, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2009 (book chapter).
Basole A (2009) Eurocentrism, the University and multiplicity of knowledge production sites, in the Edu-Factory Collective ed. The Global Autonomous University, NY: Autonomedia (book chapter).
Methods
Ramnarain S and Basole A (2016) Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods in Economics (with Smita Ramnarain), in Frederic S. Lee and Bruce Cronin eds. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics, Edward Elgar.
Book Reviews
Review of “India’s New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis” by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, and Richard Peet, Rethinking Marxism, forthcoming.
Review of “Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age” by Christian Fuchs, Routledge, 2008. Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 42, No. 4, Dec 2010.
Review of “Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism” by Jim Stanford, Pluto Press, 2008, Review of Radical Political Economics,43:4, 584 (Winter 2011)
Review of John Hobson’s “Eastern Origins of Western Civilization” Review of Radical Political Economics 39:609-612 (Fall 2007).
Neuroscience
Basole A, Kreft-Kerekes V, White LE and Fitzpatrick D (2006) Cortical Cartography Revisited: A Frequency Perspective on the Functional Architecture of Visual Cortex. Progress in Brain Research, 154:121-34.
Sanyal S, Consoulos C, Kuromi H, Basole A, Mukai L, Kidokoro Y, Krishnan KS and Ramaswami M (2005) Analysis of conditional paralytic mutants in Drosophila SERCA reveals novel mechanisms for regulating membrane excitability. Genetics, 169(2):737-50.
Basole A, White LE and Fitzpatrick D (2003) Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature, 423:986-990.
Sanyal S, Basole A and Krishnan KS (1999) Phenotypic interaction between temperature sensitive paralytic mutants comatose and paralytic suggests a role for N- ethylmaleimide sensitive fusion factor in synaptic vesicle cycling in Drosophila, Journal of Neuroscience, 19:RC47 (1-5).
Sanyal S and Basole A) (1999) Neural complexity underlying simple behavior (review), Journal of Bioscience, 24:255-257.