Nirmala Banerjee is a retired Professor of Economics from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences. She has co-edited four books and her areas of interest include urban planning and finances, industrial organinsations and forms of labour in urban India with specific reference to the unorganised sector; and the impact of these on growth and distribution, the economics of gender and issues relating to development, work and poverty.
Sugata Marjit is a Reserve Bank of India Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Kolkata. He has published research papers in a number of reputed journals like the International Economic Review, Keio Economic Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics and Canadian Journal of Economics.