An economist in the real world: the art of policymaking in India (Record no. 1570)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780670088751 |
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| Classification number | 330.954 |
| Item number | BAS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Basu, Kaushik |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | An economist in the real world: the art of policymaking in India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Haryana |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 240 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 699.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, Basu -- a theorist, with special interest in development economics, and a professor of economics at Cornell University -- discovered the complexity of applying economic models to the real world. Effective policymaking, Basu learned, integrates technical knowledge with political awareness. In this book, Basu describes the art of economic policymaking, viewed through the lens of his two and a half years as CEA. Basu writes from a unique perspective -- neither that of the career bureaucrat nor that of the traditional researcher. Plunged into the deal-making, non-hypothetical world of policymaking, Basu suffers from a kind of culture shock and views himself at first as an anthropologist or scientist, gathering observations of unfamiliar phenomena |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Politics and government |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic development |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic policy |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economists |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Employees |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Public Policy & General Management | Indian Institute of Management LRC | Indian Institute of Management LRC | General Stacks | 02/10/2022 | Bharatiya Sahitya Bhavana | 489.30 | 2 | 1 | 330.954 BAS | 001738 | 02/19/2024 | 12/16/2023 | 1 | 699.00 | 02/10/2022 | Book | IN344 | 25-01-2022 |