Kaushik Basu (born January 9, 1952) is an Indian economist. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. According to the latest newsreports in Business Standard of September 17 2009, "Basu was born in Calcutta and schooled at St. Xavier's. 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 got his MSc in Economics in 1974." Basu's curriculum vitae at his website at Cornell says he was at the London School of Economics for the PhD 1974-1976.

Over the years 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); he has been Visiting Professor at MIT, Harvard and Princeton; and Visiting Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, Basu has published scientific papers in development economics, game theory, industrial organization, political economy and the economics of child labor, and crafted the traveler's dilemmaHe is also the creator of the two-player board game Dui-doku. He is a columnist for BBC News Online, and for the Hindustan Times, 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).In 1992 he founded the Centre for Development Economics (CDE) at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, and was the Centre's first Executive Director till 1996.

He is 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 contributors that include former finance minsiter of India P. Chidambaram, Amartya Sen, and leading industrialists Ratan Tata and N.R. Narayana Murthy. Kaushik Basu is Editor of Social Choice and Welfare, Associate Editor of Japanese Economic Review and is on the Board of Editors of the World Bank Economic Review.

In 2008, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, one of the country's highest civil honors.

Books

• Revealed Preference of Government, Cambridge University Press, 1980.
• The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory, Basil Blackwell, 1984.
• Agrarian Structure and Economic Development, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990. This book is part of the series Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics edited by J. Lesourne and H. Sonnenschein.
• 1991
• 1992
• (editor, with Pulin Nayak) Development Policy and Economic Theory, Oxford University Press, 1992.
• (editor, with Mukul Majumdar and Tapan Mitra) Capital, Investment and Development, Basil Blackwell, 1993.
• (editor) Agrarian Questions, Oxford University Press, 1994.
• (editor, with Prasanta Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura) Development, Welfare and Ethics, Clarendon Press, 1995.
• 1994.
• (editor, with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India's Secular Identity, Penguin paperback, New Delhi, 1996.
• Analytical Development Economics, The MIT Press, 1997, ISBN 0-262-02423-3.
• 2000.
• (editor) Readings in Political Economy, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
• (editor, with Henrik Horn, Lisa Roman and Judith Shapiro) International Labor Standards, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
• (editor) India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond, The MIT Press, 2004, ISBN 0-262-02556-6.
• 2005.
• (editor) Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

References

External reference

• [290821] Kaushik Basu's personal page
• [290822] Kaushik Basu's articles at BBC world
• [290823] - Globalization and Babool Gum