Kaushik Basu is the Carl Marks Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Cornell University. He has to his credit a large number of monographs, edited volumes, and essay collections on development economics and democracy.
28 Ebooks by Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu: The Retreat of Democracy and Other Itinerant Essays on Globalization, Economics, and India
‘The Retreat of Democracy’ presents an expanded and reworked selection of Basu’s best journalistic and academic writings on political and economic themes since the late 1990s. As well as essays on gl …
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€34.99
Kenneth A. Loparo & Joseph E. Stiglitz: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy
It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but as growth persisted, it would, eventually, decline. Early evidence seemed to sugg …
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€96.29
Kenneth A. Loparo & Joseph E. Stiglitz: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy
It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline. As time passed and growth persisted, inequality has, however, continued …
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€96.29
Kaushik Basu: Beyond the Invisible Hand
Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiency One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith’s proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior …
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€28.99
Kaushik Basu: The Republic of Beliefs
A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the law In The Republic of Beliefs, Kaushik Basu, one of the world’s leading economists, argues that the traditional ec …
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€29.99
Kaushik Basu & Henrik Horn: International Labor Standards
This book addresses the controversial call for international labor
standards, seeking to productively further this debate by
considering the economic implications and history of these
standards. A …
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€51.99
Kaushik Basu & Tito Cordella: Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption
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 …
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€32.09
Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur: Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, …
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€107.22
Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur: Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, …
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€106.48
Kaushik Basu: Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics (Volume V): Economic Policy and Its Theoretical Bases
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 …
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€35.35
Kaushik Basu: India’s Emerging Economy
Essays by leading academics, policymakers, and industrialists examine India’s economic success in the late 1990s.India’s economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a …
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€112.29
Kaushik Basu & Bryan Maddox: Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development
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 is …
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€25.16
Kaushik Basu & Bryan Maddox: Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development
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 is …
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€25.11
Kaushik Basu: Beyond The Invisible Hand
An impassioned and sharply nuanced critique of mainstream economics from one of India’s leading economist One of the central tenets of economics is that, given certain conditions, self-interested …
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€14.99
Kaushik Basu: Economist in the Real World
Appointed as the chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India in 2009, Basu a theorist, with special interest in development economics, and a professor of economics at Cornell University …
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€22.41
Kaushik Basu: Una república fundada en creencias
Las leyes no son más que un poco de tinta sobre papel. Y sin embargo logran influir en el comportamiento de la gente: lo que las instituciones y los ciudadanos crean que pasará si cumplen o violan …
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€10.99
Kaushik Basu: Policymaker’s Journal
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 …
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€15.25
Kaushik Basu & Robert C. Hockett: Law, Economics, and Conflict
In Law, Economics, and Conflict , Kaushik Basu and Robert C. Hockett bring together international experts to offer new perspectives on how to take analytic tools from the realm of academic research o …
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€22.99
Kaushik Basu & Robert C. Hockett: Law, Economics, and Conflict
In Law, Economics, and Conflict, Kaushik Basu and Robert C. Hockett bring together international experts to offer new perspectives on how to take analytic tools from the realm of academic research …
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€188.47
Kaushik Basu: Analytical Development Economics
Virtually all industrialized nations have annual per capita incomes greater than $15, 000; meanwhile, over three billion people, more than half the worlds population, live in countries with per …
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€149.07
Kaushik Basu: Economist’s Miscellany
‘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 …
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€39.33
Kaushik Basu: Economist in the Real World
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 …
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€74.79
Kaushik Basu & David Rosenblatt: State of Economics, the State of the World
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€44.79
Kaushik Basu & David Rosenblatt: State of Economics, the State of the World
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, …
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€74.57
Kaushik Basu & Ajit Mishra: Law and Economic Development
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 rec …
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€160.49
Kaushik Basu: Der Rechtsstaat als Geflecht von Erwartungen
In diesem Buch argumentiert Kaushik Basu, einer der weltweit führenden Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, dass die traditionelle ökonomische Analyse des Rechts erhebliche Mängel aufweist und bestimmte …
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€22.99
Kaushik Basu: Reason to Be Happy
‘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 …
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€14.99
