Book Launch
Wednesday 23rd May 2012, 6.30pm to 8pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Meghnad Desai
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Panellists: Charles Goodhart and Christine Whitehead
This book is a Festschrift for Professor Lord Meghnad Desai to celebrate his innumerable and diverse contributions to the social sciences as well as political life outside academia.
Lord Desai’s research over more than half a century has ranged from Marxian analysis and economic crisis; through applied econometrics, poverty and famine; the role of private markets and the state; human development; liberalisation and globalisation; and Indian development and reform.
This volume, edited by Mary Kaldor and Polly Vizard, is a collection of chapters by eminent scholars including Robert Skidelsky, Charles Goodhart, Jagdish Bhagwati, Mozaffar Qizilbash and Montek S. Ahluwalia. It brings together contributions that reflect Meghnad’s broad research interests and engagement with economics and the social sciences over the decades. It includes contributions from a wide range of individuals whose own work relates to Meghnad’s in a variety of different ways.
Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the LSE. From 1990-1995 Lord Desai was Director of LSE's Development Studies Institute and has been at the LSE for over 30 years. In 1991, Meghnad Desai was created Lord Desai of St Clement Danes.
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics.
Charles Goodhart is Director of the Financial Regulation Research Programme in the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.
Christine Whitehead is Professor of Housing Economics at the London School of Economics.
Additional Information
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email arc@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 7615.