Kaushik Basu

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

Courses - Fall 2022

• ECON 3801 : Introduction to Game Theory and Strategic Thinking
• ECON 7740 : Law and Economics: A Game-Theoretic Approach
• ECON 7847 : Development Workshop