Deepak Lal

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Deepak (Kumar) Lal (1940 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian British neo-liberal^[1] economist, originally of India.^[2]

Biography[]

Education and early career[]

He was born in Lahore on 3 January 1940.^[2][3] He attended The Doon School in Dehradun, India.^[2][3][4] He graduated in History from Delhi University's St. Stephens College in 1959. Later at Jesus College, Oxford he received the B.A. (Honours) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1962, and the B. Phil in Economics in 1965.^[2][3][4] From 1963 to 1966, overlapping with his time at Oxford, he was a junior member of India's diplomatic corps, the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), but resigned.^[2][3][4][5]

Later career[]

In 1966, he taught at Jesus College, Oxford. The 1989 American Economic Review directory lists him as lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford from 1966–68, and as Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford from 1968–70.^[2] From 1970 to 1993, he taught at University College London.,^[2][4] becoming Professor in 1984. The 1989 American Economic Review directory listed his research interests as "North-South issues, labor markets in developing countries". In 1978, he was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.^[3]

Since 1991, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies.^[2][4] He was also a research fellow of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia.^[6]

He worked as a consultant to the International Labour Organization, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Indian Planning Commission, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Planning Ministries of Sri Lanka and South Korea.^[3][4] He served as Economic Advisor to the World Bank from 1983 to 1984, and as Research Administrator from 1984 to 1987.^[3][5] From 1994 to 1997, he was co-director of the Trade Policy Unit at the Center for Policy Studies.^[3] From 1994 to 1998, he was a Chairman of the board of advisors for the on the developing world.^[3] From 2000 to 2009, he was a member of the UK Shadow Chancellor's Council of Economic Advisors.^[3] Since 1999, he was a distinguished visiting fellow at the in New Delhi.^[3] He was also a research fellow at the Independent Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.^[4][5]

He served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2008 to 2010, and also as Senior Vice President.^[4][7][8]

He received honorary doctorates from the Paul Cézanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France in 2002 and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, Peru in 2010.^[3] In 2007, he received the Italian 's International Freedom Prize for Economics.^[3]

Bibliography[]

• Wells and Welfare: An Exploratory Cost-Benefit Study of Small-Scale Irrigation in Maharashtra (1972)
• New Economic Policies for India (1973)
• Methods of Project Analysis: A Review (1974)
• Appraising Foreign Investment in Developing Countries (1975)
• Men or Machines: A Study of Labor-Capital Substitution in Road Construction in the Philippines (1978)
• Poverty, Power and Prejudice: The North-South Confrontation (1978)
• Market Access for Semi-Manufacturers from Developing Countries (1979)
• Prices for Planning: Towards the Reform of Indian Planning (1980)
• A Liberal International Economic Order: The International Monetary System and Economic Development (1980)
• Labor and Poverty in Kenya, 1800–1980 (with P. Collier, 1986)
• Stagflation, Savings and the State: Perspective on the Global Economy (ed., with M. Wolf, 1986)
• Economic Growth in India (1988)
• Impediments to Trade Liberalization in Sri Lanka (with S. Rajapatirana, 1989)
• The Hindu Equilibrium: Vol. I – India – Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation, C. 1500 B.C. (1989)
• The Hindu Equilibrium: Vol. II – Aspects of Indian Labor (1989)
• Nationalized Universities: Paradox of the Privatization (1989)
• Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honor of I.M.D. Little (1990)
• The Limits of International Cooperation (1990)
• Political Economy and Public Policy (1990)
• Fighting Fiscal Privilege (ed., 1992)
• The Repressed Economy: Causes, Consequences, Reform (1993)
• Against Dirigisme: The Case for Unshackling Economic Markets (1994)
• The Minimum Wage (1995)
• Poverty Markets and Democracy (1995)
• The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: A Comparative Study (with H. Myint, 1996)
• Unintended Consequences: The impact of Factor Endowments, Culture and Politics On Long Run Economic Performance (1998)
• Unfinished Business: India in the World Economy (1999)
• Renewing the Miracle: Economic Development and Asia (1999)
• EMU and Globalization (1999)
• Culture, Democracy and Development (1999)
• Green Imperialism (1999)
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2000)
• The New Cultural Imperialism: Green scares and economic development (2000)
• The Poverty of "Development Economics" (2000)
• Trade, Development and Political Economy: Essays in honour of Anne Krueger (eds., with R. Snape, 2001)
• A Premium on Health: A national health insurance scheme (2001)
• The Japanese Slump (2001)
• In Defense of Empires (2004)
• In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order (2004)
• The Hindu Equilibrium: India c. 1500 B.C.–2000 A.D. (2004)
• Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century (2006)
• Lost Causes: The Retreat from Classical Liberalism (2012)
• War or Peace: The Struggle for Power (2018)

References[]

External links[]

• Deepak Lal's UCLA faculty webpage
• Appearances on C-SPAN