T. M. Thomas Isaac
Dr. T. M. Thomas Isaac | |
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Alappuzha | |
In office 16 May 2001 – 2011 | |
Preceded by | P. J. Francis |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Mararikulam |
Personal details | |
Born | Kodungallur, Travancore–Cochin, India[b] | September 26, 1952
Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Spouse | Nata Duvvury (div. 1996) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Economist, Politician |
Website | thomasisaac |
Dr. Travancore Mathew Thomas Isaac (born 26 September 1952) is an Indian politician and economist, who served as the Minister for Finance and Coir of the Indian state of Kerala. A central committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he has authored a number of articles on economics, planning and politics, has published in leading regional, national and international periodicals, presented lectures and papers in National and International Conferences and seminars. Dr. Isaac is the author of more than 50 books, both in Malayalam and English.[1]
He represented the
Biography
The son of T. P. Mathew and Saramma Mathew, Isaac obtained a PhD from the
Isaac was a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and has published a number of articles and books.[6]
Isaac is divorced from his wife Dr. Nata Duvvury
Works
English
- Science for Social Revolution: The Experience of Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad With B. Ekbal (1989)
- Democracy at work in an Indian industrial cooperative: the story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi With Richard W. Franke and Pyaralal Raghavan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998
- Kalliasseri experiment in local level planning With P. V. Unnikrishnan, T. Gangadharan, Sreekumar Chathopadhya, Lalitha Bhai Sathyan, and Ajay Kumar Varma. Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies. Monograph Series: Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development.1995
- Modernisation and employment: the coir industry in Kerala. With R. A. Van Stuijvenberg and K. N. Nair. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives 10. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. 1992
- Local Democracy and Development: People's campaign for decentralised planning in Kerala with Richard W. Franke. New Delhi: LeftWord Books. 2000
- Building Alternatives: The Story of India's Oldest Construction Workers' Cooperative with Michelle Williams. New Delhi: LeftWord Books. 2017.
Malayalam
- The Withering Coconut (1985)
- Political Economy of Poverty (1985)
- Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World (1987)
- ABC of Political Economy (1987)
- The World Bank and IMF (1988)
- Kerala: Land and Man (1988) [Won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Scholarly Literature in 1989[10]]
- Political Economy of Surrender (1992)
- Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice (1998)
- Peoples Planning: Questions and Answers (1998)
- Construction of False Consent : Critique of Malayalam Media 2000 - 2010 (with N. P. Chandrasekharan)
References
Citations
- ^ https://www.thebillionpress.org/people/thomas-isaac
- ^ https://www.thebillionpress.org/people/thomas-isaac
- ^ CDS Doctoral Studies 1975-2012. http://cds.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Thesis-List_-Jan2013.pdf
- ^ CDS Doctoral Studies 1975-2012. http://cds.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Thesis-List_-Jan2013.pdf
- ^ https://www.thebillionpress.org/people/thomas-isaac
- ^ Isaac, T.M. Thomas. "Curriculum Vitae". Centro de Estudos Sociais. Retrieved 15 March 2009. http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/emancipa/cv/gen/isaac.html
- ^ Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac's daughter Sarah to get married in New York. Retrieved 05 March 2017. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kerala-finance-minister-thomas-isaacs-daughter-sarah-get-married-new-york-689479
- ^ People. Retrieved 05 March 2017. http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/political-science-and-sociology/nataduvvury/
- ^ Shri. Dr. T. M. Thomas Isaac. Retrieved 05 March 2017. https://kerala.gov.in/dr-t-m-thomas-isaac Archived 26 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Scholarly Literature" (in Malayalam). Kerala Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
Notes
- ^ For Finance
- ^ Present-day: Kottappuram, Kodungallur, Kerala, India