Professor Lord Desai
Global Dimensions Programme Director
Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai was born on 10th July, 1940 in Baroda, India. He studied at the University of Bombay, and wrote his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. On 30 April 1991, he was created Lord Desai of St Clement Danes.
Lord Desai has taught at the London School of Economics since 1965, he was made a Professor of Economics in 1983 and he established the Centre for the study of Global Governance in 1992.
Recent publications include:
-A Basic Income Proposal in The State of the Future (Social Market Foundation, October 1998)
-What should be India's Economic Priorities in a Globalising World (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, January 1999)
-Foreign Investment and Economic Development in Capital Regulation: For and Against (Social Market Foundation, February 1999)
-Does India Need New Politics? (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, November 1999)
-Seattle: A Tragi-comedy in After Seattle: Globalisation and its Discontents, Gunnell, B & D Timms (eds.) (Catalyst, Aldgate Press, 2000)
-Communalism, Secularism and the Dilemma of Indian Nationhood in Asian Nationalism, M Leifer (ed.) (Routledge, 2000)
-Well being or Wel Fare? in Public Policy for the 21st Century: Social and Economic Essays in Memory of Henry Neuberger, Fraser, N & J Hills (eds.) (Policy Press; London, 2000)
-The Possibility of Deglobalisation in Globalisation, Inequality and Social Capital, Dolfsma, W and C Dennreuther (eds.) (Edward Elgar 2001)
-Marx's Revenge; The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism (Verso; London 2002)
Research Interests
- Economics
- International Political Economy
- Economic History
- South-Asian studies
- Globalisation
Global Dimensions Research Papers
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