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64
Citations
18082
World Ranking
644
National Ranking
411

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Kaushik Basu is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, with a particular focus on economics and related disciplines.

The primary fields of study include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subfields range across Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Economic Theory and Policy, Political Philosophy and Ethics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Free Will and Agency, Economic Theory and Institutions, Indian Economic and Social Development, and Disability Rights and Representation.

Recent publications demonstrate the diversity of Basu's research interests and include:

  • "Intersectional discrimination against women and girls with disabilities in educational opportunities in India," 2022, World Development Perspectives
  • "The Samaritan's Curse: moral individuals and immoral groups," 2021, Economics and Philosophy
  • "The Bangladesh Economy: Navigating the Turning Point," 2021, Innovations Technology Governance Globalization
  • "The economics of profit-cap policy: Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the duopoly rule," 2023, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "The ground beneath our feet," 2021, Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Frequent coauthors with whom Basu has collaborated include Robert C. Hockett, Fikri Pitsuwan, Jörn Axel Kämmerer, Hans-Bernd Schäfer, and Saikat Ghosh.

The venues where Basu's work is often published include the SSRN Electronic Journal, World Development Perspectives, Economics and Philosophy, Innovations Technology Governance Globalization, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Kaushik Basu has also contributed to book literature, with publications such as "An Economist's Miscellany" released by Oxford University Press in 2020.

Among distinctions, Basu was named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Economics of Child Labor

    Kaushik Basu;Van Pham

  • Child labor : cause, consequence, and cure, with remarks on International Labor Standards

    Kaushik Basu

  • Gender and Say: a Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously Determined Balance of Power*

    Kaushik Basu

  • The Global Child Labor Problem: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

    Kaushik Basu;Zafiris Tzannatos

  • Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited

    Kaushik Basu

  • Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited

    Kaushik Basu

  • Prelude to Political Economy: A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics

    Kaushik Basu

  • The traveler's dilemma: Paradoxes of rationality in game theory

    Kaushik Basu

  • The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory

    Kaushik Basu

  • Notes on bribery and the control of corruption

    Kaushik Basu;Sudipto Bhattacharya;Ajit Mishra

  • Child labor and household wealth: Theory and empirical evidence of an inverted-U ☆

    Kaushik Basu;Sanghamitra Das;Bhaskar Dutta

  • Strategy subsets closed under rational behavior

    Kaushik Basu;Kaushik Basu;Jörgen W. Weibull;Jörgen W. Weibull

  • The pattern and causes of economic growth in India

    Kaushik Basu;Annemie Maertens

  • Globalization, poverty, and inequality: What is the relationship? What can be done?

    Kaushik Basu

  • Women's economic roles and child survival: the case of India.

    Alaka Malwade Basu;Kaushik Basu

  • Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams with InterGenerational Equity: The Impossibility of Being Paretian

    Kaushik Basu;Tapan Mitra

  • THE EMERGENCE OF ISOLATION AND INTERLINKAGE IN RURAL MARKETS

    Kaushik Basu

  • ONE KIND OF POWER

    Kaushik Basu

  • The intriguing relation between adult minimum wage and child labor

    Kaushik Basu

  • The Growth and Decay of Custom: The Role of the New Institutional Economics in Economic History

    Kaushik Basu;Eric Jones;Ekkehart Schlicht

  • The economics of child labor.

    Kaushik Basu

  • Land, Labour, and Rural Poverty: Essays in Development Economics.

    Kaushik Basu;Pranab K. Bardhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Tapan Mitra
Tapan Mitra Cornell University
Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University
Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Prasanta K. Pattanaik University of California, Riverside
Jörgen W. Weibull
Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics
Gary S. Fields
Gary S. Fields Cornell University
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan University of California, Berkeley
Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit Princeton University
Leonardo Becchetti
Leonardo Becchetti University of Rome Tor Vergata

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