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Kaushik Basu
C. Marks Professor of International Studies
Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development

Department of Economics

EXPERTISE
Economic development; economic theory; industrial organization; political economy

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political economy; knowledge and rationality; labor markets in developing economies

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Child Labor: Cause, Consequence and Cure with Remarks on International Labor Standards." Journal of Economic Literature, September 1999.

Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited. M.I.T. Press, 1998.

(With C. Bell and P. Bose) "Interlinkage, Limited Liability, and Strategic Interaction." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, June 1998.

"On Misunderstanding Government: An Analysis of the Art of Policy Advice." Economics and Politics, 1997.

"Group Rationality, Utilitarianism and Escher's Waterfall." Games and Economic Behavior, 1994.

Lectures in Industrial Organization Theory. Basil Blackwell, 1993.

(With S. Bhattacharya and A. Mishra) "Notes on Bribery and the Control of Corruption." Journal of Public Economics, 1992.

(With C. Bell) "Fragmented Duopoly: Theory and Applications to Backward Agriculture." Journal of Development Economics, 1991.

The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (second reprint). Oxford University Press, 1990.

"On the Nonexistence of a Rationality Definition for Extensive Games." International Journal of Game Theory, 1990.

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