Research & Writing
Political Economy
Articles
Beyond Property or Beyond Piketty? (2021)
British Journal of Sociology, Volume 72, Issue 1 pp. 8-25.
Threat Effects and Trade: Wage Discipline through Product Market Competition (2013)
with Arindrajit Dube, Journal of Globalization and Development, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 213–252
Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation (2010)
with Camelia Minoiu, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 27-39.
Aid Does Matter After All: Revisiting the Relationship between Aid and Growth (2007)
with Camelia Minoiu, Challenge, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 39-58.
International Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics (2007)
Ethics and International Affairs, Volume 21, pp. 81-98.
Learning to Learn: Undoing the Gordian Knot of Development Today (2007)
with Charles Sabel, Challenge, Volume 50, Issue 5, pp. 73-92.
Counting the Poor: the Truth about World Poverty Statistics (2006)
Socialist Register, Volume 42, Issue 42, pp. 169-178.
An Independent Press Working Against Famine: The Nigerian Experience (1988)
Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 2.
Book Chapters
The Roots of the Crisis (2012)
in The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis, ed. Roger Berkowitz, Fordham University Press.
Aid Does Matter After All: Revisiting the Relationship between Aid and Growth (2007)
with Camelia Minoiu, in Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance, eds. Jose Antonio Ocampo, Jomo K.S. and Robert Vos, United Nations Publications and Zed Books, pp. 257-279.
Globalization, Labor Markets and Social Outcomes in Developing Countries (2005)
in Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction , ed. Marco Vivarelli and Eddy Lee, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 309-326.
Comment on “Trade Liberalization, FDI and Income Inequality”; by Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia (2005)
in Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction, ed. Marco Vivarelli and Eddy Lee, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208-210.
A Rising Tide of Demands: India’s Public Institutions and the Democratic Revolution (2005)
in Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design, ed. Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, pp. 457-475.
The Impact of Adjustment Related Social Funds on Income Distribution and Poverty (2004)
with Giovanni Andrea Corniain, Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization, ed. G.A. Cornia , Oxford University Press, pp. 271-294.
Strategies of Social Provision: Key Design Issues (2001)
in Social Provision in Low-Income Countries ed. G. Mwabu, C. Ugaz and G. White, Oxford University Press, pp. 101-122.
Financing Basic Social Services (2001)
with J. Harrington and C. Porter, in Choices for the Poor: Lessons from National Poverty Strategies, ed. A. Grinspun, New York: UNDP, pp. 173-202.
Op-Eds, Letters, Interviews, etc
Why the world – and India – needs to care about the attacks on American universities (2025)
The Indian Express. March 16.
The Bad Economics of Bullying: Why the schoolyard tactic doesn’t make sense as a foreign-policy strategy (2025)
Foreign Policy, February 21.
Does Modi govt deserve credit for tax effort? It’s really nothing to crow about (2024)
The Print. February 4.
All that is Wrong with Modi Govt’s Obsession with Ease of Doing Business Rankings (2018)
The Print, November 27.
Undermining Autonomy of RBI is the Opposite of Modi’s Promise of Good Governance (2018)
The Print, November 6.
Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’ (2016)
Blog post, November 23.
Is Modi’s move to scrap high-denomination notes more about politics than economics? (2016)
Scroll-In, November 8.
Will Hollande go to Germany? (2012)
Triple Crisis, August 14.
Hamlet without the Prince: Politics and the Eurozone (2012)
Economic and Political Weekly, August 4, XLVII(31), p. 9.
Europe Shall not be Crucified on Euro’s Cross (2012)
The Hindu, July 16.
Central Question in Treasury Drama (2011)
Financial Times, August 20.
Bankers Pay: What Economics Has to Say (2010)
Triple Crisis, July 19.
The Greek Tragedy and the Political Roots of Fiscal Crisis (2010)
Triple Crisis, June 1.
Knowledge in Development: Fostering Knowledge Generation in the Global South (2010)
Triple Crisis, March 2.
Interview (2007)
in The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power, ed. Nermeen Shaikh. Columbia University Press.
Unpublished Papers
The Middle Muddle: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Global Middle Class (2015)
with Rahul Lahoti and Arjun Jayadev, Working Paper.
Planning is Dead. Long Live Planning! (2015)
Working Paper.
Bargaining and Distribution: Essays on International Integration and National Regulation (2000)
PhD Thesis, Harvard University, August.
Realizing the Promise of an Indian Democracy (1999)
Working Paper.