Mihir Rakshit
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Mihir Kanti Rakshit (born July 1, 1936 in Chittagong, Bangladesh) is an economist and Director of Monetary Research Project at Investment, Information and Crediting Agency(ICRA), Kolkata, India.
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[edit] Biosketch
Dr Rakshit received his B.A. in economics from Presidency College, Kolkata, where he was to return later and spend the most productive part of his career. He completed his M.A. from the University of Calcutta and was appointed a reader in the Economics department at the University of Burdwan. He gave up the position in order to pursue his PhD at the London School of Economics, initially under the eminent Canadian economist Dr Richard Lipsey and then under Dr S Andrew Ozga.
He was formerly the Head of the Economics Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and has held appointments at the Presidency College, the Delhi School of Economics, and the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. His field of research includes transnational macroeconomics and crises and recovery in developing economies.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
- The Labour Supply Economy, (Macmillan Publishers, 1982).
- Trade, Mercantile Capital and Economic Development, (Orient Longman, 1993).
- The East Asian Currency Crisis, (Oxford University Press, 2001).
[edit] Edited volumes
- Studies in the Macroeconomics of Developing Countries, (Oxford University Press,1989).
- Issues in Economic Theory and Public Policy, co-edited with A. Bose & A. Sinha, (Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Planning and Economic Policy in India: Evaluation and Lessons for the Future, co-edited with M. Chattopadhya & Pradip Maiti, (Sage Publication, 1996).
- Essays on Public Intervention, Institutional Arrangements and Economic Efficiency, co-edited with M. Chattopadhyay & Pradip Maiti, (KP Bagchi & Company, 1999).
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Review of the book East Asian Currency Crisis by Ila Patnaik Asian Crisis Revisited, Economic and Political Weekly, January12, 2002
Rakshit, Mihir Some Macroeconomics of India's Reforms Experience - An Outline, presented at The Indian Economy Conference, Program on Comparative Economic Development(PCED), Cornell University, April 19-20, 2002
Rakshit, Mihir Comments on "Fiscal Developments and Outlook in India" by Indira Rajaraman and "Macroeconomic Implications of the Fiscal Imbalances" by Kalpana Kochhar presented at the IMF/NIPFP Conference on Fiscal Policy in India Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, India on January 16-17, 2004
Rakshit, Mihir Banking under the Emerging Economic Environment, Money and Finance, July-December, 2005
