Home Page of Santosh Kumar

 

 

 

Explosion 1: currently at university of houston for PhD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explosion 1: worked at economic research firm NCAER for two years before joining U of H

Explosion 1: my primary research interests are applied microeconomics, economic development and  particularly more interested in exploring poverty, corruption and rural development issues in developing economies   Some  Indian Economists who inflicted the world with their economic theories ( this and next list are not mutually exclusive!)

Amartya Sen ( Nobel Laureate 1998)

Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia)                 Arvind Panagariya ( Columbia)        Pranab Bardhan (UC Berkeley)        Avinash  Dixit (Princeton)              

Raghuram G  Rajan (IMF)                      Partha Dasgupta ( Cambridge)          T N Srinivasan (Yale)  

 

Economists exploring frontiers of  Applied Micro and  Economic Development

Abhijit V Banerjee (MIT)                Esther Duflo (MIT)                     Rohini Pande (Yale)                             Andrew Foster ( Brown)                 

Angus Deaton (Princeton)              Chris Udry ( Yale)                       Debraj Ray (NYU)                                Kaushik Basu ( Cornell)              

Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE)                Robin Burgess ( LSE)                  Michael Kremer (Harvard)                   Sendhil Mullainathan ( Harvard)

Joseph E Stiglitz ( Columbia)        Tim Besley ( LSE)                        Dilip Mookherjee (Boston)                   Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia)

 

Must-read books for development Grad students

Globalization and Its Discontents                                                                                        by          Joseph E. Stiglitz

In Defense of Globalization                                                                                                  by          Jagdish Bhagwati

Devlopment as Freedom                                                                                                       by          Amartya Sen

Development Economics                                                                                                       by           Debraj Ray

Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited               by            Kaushik Basu

The analysis of household surveys                                                                                       by            Angus   Deaton

Understanding  Consumption                                                                                                by            Deaton and   Muellbauer

Development Microeconomics                                                                                             by            Pranab Bardhan, Christopher Udry
 

 

 

 

 

Explosion 1: joined delhi school of economics for masters degree Explosion 1: first exposure to economics at ramjas college ( university of Delhi) during  bachelor degree   Explosion 1: high school from sainik school tilaiya, jharkhand, india