{"product_id":"b-r-shenoy-ceramic-mug-problems-of-indian-economic-development-1958","title":"B.R. Shenoy Ceramic Mug — Problems of Indian Economic Development (1958)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"First and foremost the economic affairs of a free society are controlled, directed and governed by truly sovereign consumers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— B.R. Shenoy, \u003cem\u003eProblems of Indian Economic Development\u003c\/em\u003e, 1958\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellikoth Raghunath Shenoy was the lone dissenting economist on the panel advising India's Second Five-Year Plan, at a moment when Nehru's government was committing the country to centralized industrial planning and very nearly every credentialed voice in the room agreed with it. The dissent cost him standing at home for decades — a prophet without honor in his own country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe line on this mug is the alternative he was defending. Not an order designed in advance by the best minds available, but one directed continuously by ordinary people spending their own money on what they actually want. Those are the consumers Shenoy called sovereign, and whose sovereignty any plan must necessarily displace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 oz ceramic, glossy white finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePencil-sketch portrait, printed both sides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher and microwave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand and shipped on fulfillment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoured by a sovereign consumer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769047519299,"sku":"06908d3c-b21a-490e-99b8-907d01f1f0d1","price":18.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/4737\/5683\/files\/4ba25e4b-49ce-430f-9b8b-2365fcdc6df4.webp?v=1764728683","url":"https:\/\/cafe.tollbooth-dpyc.com\/products\/b-r-shenoy-ceramic-mug-problems-of-indian-economic-development-1958","provider":"Good Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}