T. M. Thomas Isaac


T. M. Thomas Isaac is an Indian politician and economist who is serving as the Minister of Finance of the Indian state of Kerala and a central committee member of the Communist Party of India. He represents Alappuzha constituency in the Kerala State Legislative Assembly. During his tenure as a member of the Kerala State Planning Board, he was in charge of the Peoples Planning in Kerala. He also served as the Finance Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011.

Personal life

The son of T. P. Mathew and Saramma Mathew, Isaac obtained a PhD from the Centre for Development Studies. His PhD thesis is titled Class Struggle and Industrial Structure: A Study of Coir Weaving Industry in Kerala 1859 - 1980. While a student, he became involved in student politics, being involved with the Students Federation of India, an organisation which is politically linked with the Communist Party of India. He has held posts in the SFI at college, district and state level.
Isaac was a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and has published a number of articles and books.
Isaac is divorced from his wife Dr Nata Duvvury who is currently a senior lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. They have two daughters; Sara Duvisac, and Dora Duvisac.

Books

English

  1. Science for Social Revolution: The Experience of Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad With B. Ekbal
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Local Democracy and Development: People's campaign for decentralised planning in Kerala with Richard W. Franke. New Delhi: LeftWord Books. 2000

    Malayalam

  6. The Withering Coconut
  7. Political Economy of Poverty
  8. Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World
  9. ABC of Political Economy
  10. The World Bank and IMF
  11. Kerala: Land and Man
  12. Political Economy of Surrender
  13. Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice
  14. Peoples Planning: Questions and Answers
  15. Construction of False Consent : Critique of Malayalam Media 2000 - 2010