Kaushik Basu
Carl Marks Professor of International Studies
Education
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1976
Departments and programs
- Economics
- Philosophy
Academic interests
- Economic Theory
- Industrial Organizations
- Political Economy
Links
Research Focus
- Economic development
- Economic theory
- Industrial organization
- Political economy
In the news
- At global turning point, economists take stock of 100 years of development
- Self-fulfilling rankings boost agencies’ power, influence
- What to read in 2022? A&S faculty weigh in
- The most important meeting yet for global pandemic response–and drugmakers
- President Pollack shares community updates
- Natalie Wolchover named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for Spring 2022
- Dear diary: Basu shares notes from policymaking’s front lines
- Kaushik Basu receives Humboldt Research Award
- Bartels lecturer speaks out on rising threats to democracy
- Nobel laureate Sen to lecture on protecting democracy
- Indian MP Rahul Gandhi to speak on democracy March 2
- Panel: Coordination is key to a world beyond COVID-19
- Floundering economies look to IMF, World Bank for meaningful change
- Opinion: Let us not underestimate the pandemic’s economic fallout
- More than rate cuts: The coronavirus demands a coordinated global policy response
- NYU prof. shares insight on game theory economics
- India can hide unemployment data, but not the truth
- Cornell faculty, leadership begin to tackle grand challenges
- Why is democracy faltering?
- Global Grand Challenges event to spark faculty dialogue
- How can societies become law-abiding? Kaushik Basu has some suggestions
- Law/economics initiative takes on big questions at kickoff conference
- Law and economics initiative launches with NYC event
- ISS grants jump-start new social science research
- India and the Visible Hand of the Market
- Kaushik Basu takes the helm of the International Economic Association
- A&S plans host of activities for Reunion 2017
- Basu: Economics of climate change will affect world poverty