 | Deepak Lal is James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University College London. Born in 1940, and educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Jesus College, Oxford, he has been a member of the Indian Foreign Service (1963-66), Lecturer, Jesus College, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford (1966-68), Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (1968-70), Lecturer and Reader in Political Economy, University College, London (1970-84) and Professor of Political Economy, University of London (1984-93). He, was a full-time consultant to the Indian Planning Commission (1973-74), a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, 1978, and has served as a consultant to the ILO, UNCTAD, OECD, UNIDO, the World Bank, and the ministries of planning in Korea, and Sri Lanka. During 1983-84 he was an Economic Advisor to the World Bank, and then the Research Administrator at the World Bank (1984-87), on leave from University College, London. He has been co-director of the Trade Policy Unit at the Center for Policy Studies (1994-97) and the Chairman of the board of advisors for the Nestle Lecture on the developing world (1994-98). He has been a member of the UK Shadow Chancellor=s Council of Economic Advisors since 2000, and a distinguished visiting fellow at the National Council for Economic Research, New Delhi since 1999. He received the Italian Societa Libera’s International Freedom Prize for Economics in 2007. |
Professor Lal is the author of numerous articles and books on economic development and public policy including: Methods of Project Analysis (1974); Men and Machines (1978); Prices for Planning (1980); The Poverty of Development Economics (1983, 1997, 2002); (with P. Collier) Labour and Poverty in Kenya (1986); The Hindu Equilibrium (2 vols, 1988, 1989; revised abridged edtn. 2005); (with H.Myint) The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth (1996); the Ohlin lectures: “Unintended Consequences” (1998), and In Praise of Empires (2004). His most recent book is Reviving the Invisible Hand: the case for classical liberalism in the twenty first century (2006).Three collection of his essays have been published: The Repressed Economy (1993), Against Dirigisme (1994) and Unfinished Business (1999).
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