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P. N. Haksar

Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar

1913–1998

Also known as: PN Haksar, P N Haksar

How P. N. Haksar is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 2 other works — including Economic Prophecies , and Free Enterprise in Danger - B.R. Shenoy .

In Economic Prophecies : Haksar is Shenoy's foil — the Planning Commission deputy chairman whose '90 per cent of national product comes from the private sector' defence Shenoy rebuts by reframing the question around investment-resource share rather than current output.

In Free Enterprise in Danger - B.R. Shenoy : Shenoy cites Haksar's rebuttal to Tata at a Federation of Indian Chambers meeting as the establishment's defensive response to Tata's warning, characterising it as an evasive counter-argument to Shenoy's own case for free enterprise.

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Primary works (1)

  • Economic Prophecies · 2004
    • "Shenoy rebuts Planning Commission Deputy Chairman P N Haksar's counter-claim that 90 per cent of national product still comes from the private sector" — Haksar is named as the official voice Shenoy is dismantling
    • "Haksar's 90-per-cent private-sector-output defence is rejected: the decisive variable is the public sector's share of investment resources, not current output" — summary key-point making the Haksar rebuttal the analytic centrepiece of the essay

Excerpts (1)

  • Free Enterprise in Danger - B.R. Shenoy
    • "P N Haksar, deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, reacted to these home truths in extraordinarily strong terms." — Haksar is the Planning Commission voice whose counter-argument Shenoy systematically dismantles