Kaushik
Basu
Kaushik Basu is a
Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at
the Department of Economics, Cornell University. He has held visiting positions
at CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton),
and the London School of Economics, where he was a Distinguished Visitor in 1993.
He also has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Princeton University.
A Fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial
Award for contributions to economics, Kaushik Basu has published widely in the
areas of Development, Industrial Organization, Welfare Economics and Game Theory.
His books include Analytical Development Economics (1997, MIT Press) and Prelude
to Political Economy (2000, Oxford University Press). Professor Basu has also
contributed popular articles to magazines and newspapers such as The New York
Times, The Times of India and India Today.
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