Kaushik Basu
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Kaushik Basu is a renowned Indian economist. He is currently Professor of Economics, the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, and Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. He was born on January 9, 1952 in Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, and received his early education there at St. Xavier's School. In 1969 he moved to Delhi to do his undergraduate studies in Economics from St. Stephen's College and then he went on to the London School of Economics, from where he received his M.Sc. (Econ) in 1974 and PhD in 1976. He did his PhD with Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in the area of choice theory and welfare economics. Over the years Kaushik Basu has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve) and the London School of Economics (where he was Distinguished Visitor in 1993); and he has been Visiting Professor at MIT, Harvard and Princeton. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, Kaushik Basu has published scientific papers in development economics, game theory, industrial organization and political economy. He is a columnist for BBC News Online, and for the Times of India, and is the author of several books on economics and a play, Crossings at Benaras Junction, which was published in The Little Magazine (vol. 6, 2005). He is also the editor of the Oxford Companion to Economics in India, published by Oxford University Press (February, 2007), which is a compendium on the Indian economy with a list of 198 contributors, that includes P. Chidambaram (Finance Minister of India), Amartya Sen, Ratan Tata, N.R. Narayana Murthy and C. N. R. Rao.
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- Analytical Development Economics (The MIT Press, 1997);ISBN 0-262-02423-3.
- Collected Papers In Theoretical Economics: Development, Markets, And Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2005); ISBN 0-19-566761-1.
- Collected Papers In Theoretical Economics: Rationality, Games And Strategic Behaviour (Oxford University Press, 2005); ISBN
- Lectures in Industrial Organization Theory (Blackwell Publishers, 1992)
- Economic Graffiti: Essays for Everyone (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Of People, Of Places: Sketches from an Economist's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1994).
- Prelude to Political Economy: A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics (Oxford University Press, 2000)
