Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development
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. 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.
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 has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia and has served on the staff of the World Bank in several capacities, including as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.
Contributors:
Bina Agarwal, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Isher Ahluwalia, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Montek S Ahluwalia, Planning Commission, Government of India
Ingela Alger, Carleton University
Muhammad Asali, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley
Lourdes Benería, Cornell University
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Lincoln C. Chen, President, China Medical Board
Martha Alter Chen, Harvard University
Kanchan Chopra, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Simon Dietz, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Jonathan Glover, Kings College London
Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford
Jane Humphries, University of Oxford
Rizwanul Islam, International Labour Office, Geneva
Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University
Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sunil Khilnani, Johns Hopkins University
Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen
Jocelyn Kynch, The University of Wales
Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, University of Pavia
Kirsty McNay,
Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington
Gustav Ranis, Yale University
Sanjay G. Reddy, Department of Economics, Barnard College, and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
Emma Samman, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Rehman Sobhan, Centre for Policy Dialogue Bangladesh
Robert M. Solow, MIT
Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics and Political Science
Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan
Sujata Visaria, Department of Economics, Boston University
Jörgen W. Weibull, Stockholm School of Economics
