Goa University congratulates Prof Amit Bhaduri for winning Leontief Prize in Economics

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    D B Bandodkar Chair in Political Economy

    2016 Leontief Prize Winners:
    Goa University congratulates Prof Amit Bhaduri for winning Leontief Prize in Economics

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    Professor Amit Bhaduri, Visiting research professor under Dayanand Bandodkar Chair in Political Economy at Goa University has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought by Global Environment and Development Institute, Tufts University, USA.  He has been awarded the prize along with Dr. Diane Elson who  is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Women in Scotland’s Economy, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Research Associate of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University.

    GDAE awards the Leontief Prize each year to leading theorists who have developed innovative work in economics that addresses contemporary realities and supports just and sustainable societies. This year’s award will celebrate their continuing efforts to expand our knowledge of economic systems in the contexts of globalization, capital accumulation and the shifting balance of power away from governments to markets. This year’s award, titled “Development and Equity,” recognizes the contributions that these researchers have made to economic understandings of development, power, gender, and human rights.

    “As the free market and waves of globalization have left some peoples behind, Diane Elson and Amit Bhaduri demonstrate why the current theories of development have excluded the poor and disenfranchised from the growth process,” said GDAE Co-Director Neva Goodwin. “Their cross-disciplinary work and profound understanding of economic development is appropriately recognized in an award that bears Leontief’s name.”
    GDAE inaugurated its economics award in 2000 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist and GDAE advisory board member Wassily Leontief. The Leontief Prize recognizes economists whose work, like that of the institute and Leontief himself, combines theoretical and empirical research to promote a more comprehensive understanding of social and environmental processes.

    The inaugural prizes were awarded in 2000 to John Kenneth Galbraith and Nobel Prize winner Amartya SenSince establishing the Leontief Prize in 2000, GDAE has awarded the prize to numerous distinguished economists including Amartya Sen, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Herman E. Daly.

    Dr. Amit Bhaduri is Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and is currently the Visiting Chair Professor under D B Bandodkar Chair in Political Economy at Goa University. He has served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pavia, Italy, Reader at the Delhi School of Economics, and Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Dr. Bhaduri’s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. He has published more than 60 papers and has written ten books.

     

    Dr. Bhaduri’s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. His contribution as an economic theorist lies in challenging the mainstream theory and analyzing the role of power in the market economy in a precise and yet compelling way. Bhaduri has published more than 60 papers in leading international journals and is currently on the editorial boards of five of them. He has written ten books, including: The Economic Structure of Backward Agriculture (1982), Macroeconomics: The Dynamics of Commodity Production (1986), Unconventional Economic Essays (1992), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalisation (coauthored with D. Nayyar) (1996), On the Border of Economic Theory and History (1999), Development with Dignity (2006), and Growth, Distribution and Innovations: Understanding their Interrelations (2007).

    Goa University is proud of this achievement by Professor Bhaduri.