Kaushik Basu

C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics
and Director, Center for Analytic Economics

Department of Economics, Cornell University; Ithaca, NY, 14853

Tel: 607-255-2525; Fax: 607-255-2818; E-mail: kb40@cornell.edu

 

 

Recent Research:

• Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics, Volume 1: Development, Markets and Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2005. View Comments
• Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics, Volume 2: Rationality, Games and Strategic Behaviour, Oxford University Press, 2005. View Comments
• Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics, Volume 3: Welfare Law and Globilization, Oxford University Press, 2007. View Comments
• "On the Existence of Paretian Social Welfare Relations for Infinite Utility Streams with Extended Anonymity", (with T. Mitra), in John Roemer and Kotaro Suzumura (eds.), Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability, Palgrave, 2007.
• " Possibility Theorems for Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams", (with T. Mitra), in John Roemer and Kotaro Suzumura (eds.), Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability, Palgrave, 2007.
• Retreat of Democracy and Other Interant Essays, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007.
• (editor) Oxford Companion to Economics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• "The Traveler's Dilemma," Scientific American, vol. 296, No. 6, June 2007.
• "Coercion, Contract and the Limits of the Market" (based on the Colin Clark Lecture to the Australasian Meetings of the Econometric Society), Social Choice and Welfare, 2007.
• "The Patterns and Causes of Economic Growth in India" (with Annemie Maertens), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007.
• "Utilitarianism for Infinite Utility Streams: A New Welfare Criterion and Its Axiomatic Characterization ", (with Tapan Mitra) Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 133, 2007.
• "Human Rights as Instruments of Emancipation and Economic Development ", in S. Hertel and A. Minkler (eds.), Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• "Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-Determined Balance of Power", Economic Journal, April, 2006.
• "Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What is the Relationship? What can be Done?", World Development, 2006.
• "International Credit and Welfare: A Paradoxical Theorem and its Policy Implications", (with Hodaka Morita), European Economic Review, 2006.
• "Consumer Cognition and Pricing in the 9's in Oligopolistic Markets", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2006.
• "Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity", Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005.
• "The New Empirical Development Economics: Remarks on Its Philosophical Foundations", Economic and Political Weekly, October 1, 2005.
• "Child Labor and the Law: Notes on Possible Pathologies", Economic Letters, vol. 87, pp. 169-74, 2005.

Less Accessible Writings:

• "Crossings at Benaras Junction: A Play in Three or Four Acts", The Little Magazine, forthcoming. (For an Excerpt, click HERE)
• "Globalization and Babool Gum: Travels through Rural Gujarat", The Little Magazine, 2005, vol. 5, issue 1.
• "The Retreat of Global Democracy", Indicators, 2002.
• "On Why We Do Not Try to Walk off without Paying after a Tax-Ride", Economic & Political Weekly, November 1983, Vol. 18, pp. 2011-2012.

Links:

• CV (pdf version)
• A list of my papers (a selection, with links)
• A list of my books
• My BBC online column
• Gallery
• A Bibliography on Child Labor (various authors)
• Dui-doku: Try this new two-player Sudoku-type game.