Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement
Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
Author Information
Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, Department of Economics, and Director, Center for Analytic 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 Distinguished Visitor in 1993. He has been Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Princeton University, and M.I.T. In 1992 he founded the Centre for Development Economics in Delhi and was its first Executive Director. He is also a founding member of the Madras School of Economics. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Memorial Award for contributions to economics, Kaushik Basu has published widely in the areas of Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory and Welfare Economics. Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia.
Ravi Kanbur has served on the staff of the World Bank, as Economic Adviser, Senior Economic Adviser, Resident Representative in Ghana, Chief Economist of the African Region of the World Bank, and Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank. He has also served as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.
Professor Kanbur's main areas of interest are public economics and development economics. His work spans conceptual, empirical, and policy analysis. He is particularly interested in bridging the worlds of rigorous analysis and practical policy making.
Contributors:
Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford
Paul Anand, Open University
Sudhir Anand, University of Oxford
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
A. B. Atkinson, University of Oxford
Walter Bossert, Université de Montréal
Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics
John Broome, University of Oxford
Satya R. Chakravarty, Indian Statistical Institute
Rajat Deb, Southern Methodist University
Bhaskar Dutta, The University of Warwick
James E. Foster, Vanderbilt University
Wulf Gaertner, University of Osnabrück
Indranil K. Ghosh, Winston Salem State University
Peter Hammond, The University of Warwick
Christopher Handy, Cornell University
Christopher Harris, University of Cambridge
Satish K. Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Isaac Levi, Columbia University
Oliver Linton, London School of Economics and Political Science
Siddiqur R. Osmani, University of Ulster
Prasanta K. Pattanaik, University of California, Riverside
Edmund S. Phelps, Columbia University
Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York
Martin Ravallion, World Bank
Kevin Roberts, University of Oxford
Ingrid Robeyns, Radboud University Nijmegen
Maurice Salles, Université de Caen
Cristina Santos, University College London
Thomas. M. Scanlon, Harvard University
Arjun Sengupta, Indian Parliament
Tae Kun Seo, Southern Methodist University
Anthony Shorrocks, UNU-WIDER
Ronald Smith, Birkbeck College
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
S. Subramanian, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Kotaro Suzumura, Hitotsubashi University
Alain Trannoy, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Guanghua Wan, UNU-WIDER
John A. Weymark, Vanderbilt University
Yongsheng Xu, Georgetown State University
