Prabhat Patnaik on the effect of globalization and democracy

Prabhat Patnaik is an economist and Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and serves as a lead author for Chapter 20 – Belonging and Solidarity. In this interview, he warns about the potential of globalization to threaten democracy. He relates democracy to a sense of belonging, and explains what developments in basic rights he hopes to see as an effect of social progress.