Table of contents
     Preface to the Tenth Edition                   (vii)    Economic Growth                               2.2
     Preface to the First Edition                    (xi)    Economic Development                          2.3
     About the Civil Services Examination          (xiii)    Measuring Development                         2.4
                                                             Human Development Index                       2.5
       1. INtrODuCtION                         1.1–1.21      The Debate Continues                          2.6
          Economics: the Discipline                   1.2    Introspecting Development                     2.7
          A Working Definition                        1.2    Happiness                                     2.9
          Economics and The Economy                   1.3    The Meaning of Happiness                    2.10
          The Focus of Economics                      1.4    The Background                               2.11
          Challenges of the Economies                 1.4    Re-imagining the Idea of Happiness          2.12
          Distribution Network Models                 1.5    At the End                                  2.16
          Organising an Economy                       1.5    Insights into Human Behaviour                2.18
          role of the State in an Economy             1.9    Social Norms, Culture and Development       2.18
          Washington Consensus                       1.11    Values and Economics                        2.20
          Sectors of an Economy                     1.13  3. EvOLutION Of                            3.1–3.13
          types of Economies                        1.13     tHE INDIAN ECONOMY
          the Idea of National Income               1.14     the Background                                3.2
          GDP                                       1.15
                                                             Prime Moving force: Agriculture vs. Industry 3.3
          NDP                                       1.15
                                                             Planned and Mixed Economy                     3.7
          GNP                                       1.16
          NNP                                       1.17     Emphasis on the Public Sector                 3.9
          Cost and Price of National Income         1.18
                                                          4. ECONOMIC PLANNING                        4.1–4.9
          Taxes & National Income                   1.19
                                                             Introduction                                  4.2
          Subsidies & National Income               1.19
                                                             Definition                                    4.2
          revision in the Base Year and Method      1.20
          of National Income Accounting                      Origin and Expansion of Planning              4.4
          Income Estimates for 2017–18              1.21     types of Planning                             4.5
       2. GrOWtH, DEvELOPMENt                  2.1–2.21   5. PLANNING IN INDIA                       5.1–5.64
          AND HAPPINESS                                      Introduction                                  5.2
          Introduction                                2.2    Background                                    5.2
          Progress                                    2.2    The Visvesvaraya Plan                         5.2