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  • The Indian Economy

    Navigating a Global Turning Point

    by Kaushik Basu, Sonalde Desai, Ashwini Deshpande, Nirvikar Singh ...
    India stands at a crossroads. With a population of 1.4 billion, the world’s fifth-largest economy, and a geopolitical moment that creates the potential for it to be a preferred destination for investment flowing away from China, the country has rarely faced such a confluence of opportunity and peril. A generation after liberalization transformed its economy, India is again confronting a turning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Beyond the Invisible Hand

    Groundwork for a New Economics

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out of context, contorted, and used as the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Policymaker's Journal

    From New Delhi to Washington D.C.

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    This book charts the course of Kaushik Basu’s career over seven years, as he moved out of the cloisters of academe to the frenetic world of policymaking, first in India as Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian Government and after that as Chief Economist at the World Bank in Washington.The Indian years were a period of high inflation, growth challenges (as the global financial crisis arrived in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Republic of Beliefs

    A New Approach to Law and Economics

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the lawIn The Republic of Beliefs, Kaushik Basu, one of the world's leading economists, argues that the traditional economic analysis of the law has significant flaws and has failed to answer certain critical questions satisfactorily. Why are good laws drafted but never implemented? When laws are unenforced, is it a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • An Economist’s Miscellany

    From the Groves of Academe to the Slopes of Raisina Hill, Expanded Edition

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    ‘Philosophy has to be deductive, poetry romantic, plays and fiction humorous, and politics intriguing if they are to catch my attention,’ writes Kaushik Basu. All these interests are on display in An Economist’s Miscellany, which brings together an eclectic collection of writings on the world of academe, politics, policy, travel, and more. This book offers unique glimpses of the author’s ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Reason to Be Happy

    Why logical thinking is the key to a better life

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah FryWhy do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes to our life expectancy, should we still go ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

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  • The State of Economics, the State of the World

    Edited by Kaushik Basu, David Rosenblatt, Claudia Sepulveda ...
    Leading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises.More than a decade of financial crises, sovereign debt problems, political conflict, and rising xenophobia and protectionism has left the global economy unsettled and the ability of economics as a discipline to account for episodes of volatility uncertain. In this book, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Law and Economic Development

    Behavioral and Moral Foundations of a Changing World

    Edited by Kaushik Basu, Ajit Mishra ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is a major stocktaking of law and economics in the context of developing and emerging economies, and in the light of the dramatic changes in the global economy that we have witnessed in recent years. The rise of artificial intelligence, digital technology, and mega platforms that collect data and facilitate trade is changing the landscape of economics. Rapid globalization has created new ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • An Economist in the Real World

    The Art of Policymaking in India

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    An economist's perspective on the nuts and bolts of economic policymaking, based on his experience as the Chief Economic Adviser in India.In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, Basu—a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics (Volume V): Economic Policy and Its Theoretical Bases

    Using Economic Theory for Policymaking in Emerging Economies

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    Series series Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics
    Effective policymaking is based on economics which is a blend of empiricism as well as theory. It needs to be grounded not only in data, statistics, and the regularities observed therein, but also analytics, deductive reasoning, and logic, which are the constituents of theory. Published during 2009–16, the seven years that Basu spent as a policymaker—first as chief economic adviser to the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption

    Edited by Kaushik Basu, Tito Cordella ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book considers how emerging economies around the world face the challenge of building good institutions and effective governance, since so much of economic development depends on having these in place. The promotion of shared prosperity and the battle against poverty require interventions to reach out to the poor and the disadvantaged. Yet time and again we have seen such effort foild or ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development

    Edited by Kaushik Basu, Bryan Maddox, Anna Robinson-Pant ...
    The links between literacy and development have been the focus of research conducted by both economists and anthropologists. Yet researchers from these different disciplines have tended to work in isolation from each other. This book aims to create a space for new interdisciplinary debate in this area, through bringing together contributions on literacy and development from the fields of education ... Read more

    $32.99 USD