Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh (born 1955) is left leaning economist.

She is now Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India. Her specialities include globalization, international finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to gender and development.

Education

Her 1984 doctoral thesis at Cambridge University was entitled "Non capitalist land rent: theories and the case of North India" under the supervision of Mr T Byres.

Career

Development economics
Economies by region
Africa North America South America Asia Europe Oceania
Economic growth theories
Harrod–Domar model neoclassical growth model Endogenous growth theory Unified growth theory balanced growth theory
Fields and subfields
Economic inequality Poverty Undernutrition land labour Human Capital Education property Rights Microfinance Decentralization
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She previously held positions at Tufts University and Cambridge, lecturing meanwhile at academic institutions throughout India. She is one of the founders of the Economic Research Foundation in New Delhi, a non-profit trust devoted to progressive economic research. (Selections of her columns from the Macroscan, the Foundation's outlet, will be published as Tracking the Macroeconomy.) She is also Executive Secretary of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), a network of economists critical of the mainstream economic paradigm of neo-liberalism.

She was the principal author of the West Bengal Human Development Report which has received the UNDP Prize for excellence in analysis. In addition to her many scholarly articles, she writes regular columns on economics and current affairs for Frontline magazine, Businessline, the Bengali newspaper Ganashakti, Deccan Chronicle, and Asian Age. Professor Ghosh lives in New Delhi. It is little known, but she is very well educated in Western Classical music and occasionally lectures on the genius of Mozart et al. Jayati Ghosh writes a regular column for the fortnightly national magazine "Frontline" focusing mainly on economic issues related to the common man.

She is married to Abhijit Sen an economist who is now a member of Planning Commission.

She was conferred International Labour Organisation's Decent Work Research Prize along with Professor Eve Landau in February 2011.^[1]

In Spring Term 2011, she served as the first Ragnar Nurkse Visiting Professor in Development Economics at Tallinn University of Technology's Technology Governance graduate program.

Government service

• The Congress Government appointed a commission under her leadership to study farmers' suicides and suggest ways to tackle the problem. The Andhra Pradesh Government committed to implementing the Commission recommendations.
• Member of the National Knowledge Commission set up by the Indian Prime Minister.
• Member of the Advisory Committee of National Translation Mission (NTM), a project of Govt. of India.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Ghosh, Jayati; Chandrasekhar, C.P. (2001). Crisis as conquest: learning from East Asia. New Delhi: Orient Longman. ISBN 9788125018988. 
• Ghosh, Jayati; Chandrasekhar, C.P. (2004) [1st. pub. LeftWord Books:2002]. The market that failed: neoliberal economic reforms in India (2nd ed.). New Delhi: LeftWord Books. ISBN 9788187496458.  Also reprinted January 2008, January 2009, July 2011.
• Ghosh, Jayati (2009). Never done and poorly paid: women's work in globalising India. New Delhi: Women Unlimited. ISBN 9788188965441. 
• Ghosh, Jayati (2009). After crisis: adjustment, recovery, and fragility in East Asia. New Delhi: Tulika Books. ISBN 9788189487584. 

• Edited the forthcoming Economics of the New Imperialism.

Articles

• Ghosh, JayatiWomen at work and at war: New realities of the global economy (pdf).
• Ghosh, Jayati (24 December 1999). "The new sin: infogluttony". Outlook (India). 
• Ghosh, Jayati (8 October 2009). "The Nobel prize for economics may need its own bailout". The Guardian (London). 
• Ghosh, Jayati (19 January 2012). "Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth?". The Guardian (London). 

Talks

• "The Economics of the American Empire: Fierceness and Fragility"
• An Interview with "The Real News Network": Global food bubble on the way (Food prices set to surge due to Wall Street speculation)
• An Interview with "The Real News Network": Global food bubble on the way, Part 2 (We have to ban finance speculation that does not physically hold food commodities)
• An Interview with Tej Prakash of "Ek Duniya Ek Awaaz": on Indian Budget 2011-2012
• "A discussion as part of the Guardian Open Weekend"

External links

• Faculty profile at Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Profile at National Knowledge Commission
• Column archive at The Asian Age
• Column archive at The Guardian
• Works by or about Jayati Ghosh in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• AP implements Jayati Ghosh suggestions, The Hindu Business Line, 23 September 2006
• Jayati Ghosh awarded ILO prize, The Hindu, 12 February 2011
• Videos on YouTube

References