| Geopolitical economy: After US hegemony, globalization and empire (the future of world capitalism) R Desai Pluto Press, 2013 | 405 | 2013 |
| Second-hand dealers in ideas: think-tanks and Thatcherite hegemony R Desai New Left Review, 27, 1994 | 293 | 1994 |
| Intellectuals and Socialism:" Social Democrats" and the British Labour Party R Desai Lawrence & Wishart, 1994 | 104 | 1994 |
| Consumption demand in Marx and in the current crisis R Desai Research in Political Economy 26, 101-143, 2010 | 57 | 2010 |
| Neoliberalism and cultural nationalism: A danse macabre R Desai Neoliberal hegemony: A global critique, 222-235, 2006 | 50 | 2006 |
| The inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: engaging imagined communities R Desai The Asia-Pacific Journal 11 (51), 2-9, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Dreaming in technicolour? India as a BRIC economy R Desai International Journal 62 (4), 781-804, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
| Slouching Towards Ayodhya: Three Essays R Desai Three Essays Press, 2002 | 41 | 2002 |
| From national bourgeoisie to rogues, failures and bullies: 21st century imperialism and the unravelling of the Third World R Desai Third World Quarterly 25 (1), 169-185, 2004 | 40* | 2004 |
| Introduction: nationalisms and their understandings in historical perspective R Desai Third World Quarterly 29 (3), 397-428, 2008 | 38* | 2008 |
| Gujarat's Hindutva of Capitalist Development R Desai South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 34 (3), 354-381, 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Forward march of Hindutva halted? R Desai New left review, 49-67, 2004 | 37 | 2004 |
| Culturalism and contemporary right: Indian bourgeoisie and political Hindutva R Desai Economic and Political Weekly, 695-712, 1999 | 34 | 1999 |
| Conclusion: from developmental to cultural nationalisms R Desai Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms, 245-268, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| The absent geopolitics of pure capitalism R Desai World Review of Political Economy, 463-484, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
| Introduction: From the neoclassical diversion to geopolitical economy R Desai Theoretical engagements in geopolitical economy, 1-44, 2015 | 28* | 2015 |
| Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics R Desai Three Essays Collectives, 2004 | 28 | 2004 |
| Marx, List, and the Materiality of Nations R Desai Rethinking Marxism 24 (1), 47-67, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Not rocket science: A roadmap for arts and cultural R&D H Bakhshi, A Freeman, R Desai | 27 | 2010 |
| Not rocket science: A roadmap for arts and cultural R&D H Bakhshi, A Freeman, R Desai | 27 | 2010 |
