Lord
Meghnad Desai professor of Economic at London School of
Economics and Political Science was born on 10th July,
1940 in Baroda, India. He graduated from the University of Bombay and obtained
Ph.D in economics from the University of Pennysylvania,
USA
Lord
Desai has taught at the London School of Economics since
1965, he was made a Professor of Economics in 1983.
Currently he is the Director of the Centre for the Study
of Global Governance, London School of Economics. He has
written extensively on a wide range of subjects. From
1984-1991, he was co-editor of the Journal of Applied
Econometrics. He has been both Chair and President of
Isligton South and Pinsbury Constituency Labour Party in
London and was made a peer in April 1991. He is
currently Chairman of the Trustee’s Board for Training
for Life, Chairman of the Management Board of City Roads
and on the Board of Tribune magazine.
Lord Desai is a member of AUT and the Chair of the
Management Committee of City Roads. His career
accomplishments include serving as an Associate
specialist with the Department of Agricultural
Economics, and Lecturer in Economics at the London
School of Economics.
He has
served as the Opposition Spokesperson on Health and
Treasury and Economic Affairs, and has four honorary
doctorates. Lord Desai has special interests in economic
policy, education and development, and is also the
author of several publications on economics.
Lord
Desai's recent publications include:
| S.No |
Publication |
| 1 |
A
Basic Income Proposal in The State of the
Future (Social Market Foundation, October
1998) |
| 2 |
What
should be India's Economic Priorities in a
Globalising World (Indian Council for
Research on International Economic
Relations, January 1999) |
| 3 |
Foreign
Investment and Economic Development in
Capital Regulation: For and Against (Social Market Foundation, February 1999) |
| 4 |
Does
India Need New Politics? (Indian Council for
Research on International Economic
Relations, November 1999) |
| 5 |
Seattle:
A Tragi-comedy in After Seattle:
Globalisation and its Discontents,
Gunnell, B & D Timms (eds.) (Catalyst,
Aldgate Press, 2000) |
| 6 |
Communalism,
Secularism and the Dilemma of Indian
Nationhood in Asian Nationalism, M
Leifer (ed.) (Routledge, 2000) |
| 7 |
Well
being or Wel Fare? in Public Policy for
the 21st Century: Social and Economic Essays
in Memory of Henry Neuberger, Fraser, N
& J Hills (eds.) (Policy Press; London,
2000) |
| 8 |
The
Possibility of Deglobalisation in Globalisation,
Inequality and Social Capital, Dolfsma,
W and C Dennreuther (eds.) (Edward Elgar
2001) |
| 9 |
Marx's
Revenge; The Resurgence of Capitalism and
the Death of Statist Socialism (Verso;
London 2002) |
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