Jayati Ghosh
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Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her specialities include globalization, international finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to gender and development. She was born in 1955 and educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and the University of Cambridge.
She previously held positions at Tufts University and Cambridge, lecturing meanwhile at academic institutions throughout India. She is one of the founders of the Economic Research Foundation in New Dehli, a non-profit trust devoted to progressive economic research. (Selections of her columns from the Macroscan, the Foundation's outlet, will be published as Tracking the Macroeconomy.) She is also Executive Secretary of the International Development Economics Associates(IDEAS), a network of economists critical of the mainstream economic paradigm of neo-liberalism.
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"... real knowledge (always in history the basis of social control) is now seen as private property, which can be bought and sold, but more importantly can be held as the monopoly of a few.
The entirely peculiar concept of intellectual property rights, which actually emphasises this, runs counter to the way in which knowledge has evolved and developed over time in all societies."
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- The Congress Government appointed a commission under her leadership to study farmers' suicides and suggest ways to tackle the problem. The Andhra Pradesh Government committed to implementing the Commission recmmendations.
- Member of the National Knowledge Commission set up by the Indian Prime Minister.
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- http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/massey/ghosh.shtml "The Economics of the American Empire:
Fierceness and Fragility"
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- Women at work and at war: New realities of the global economy
- "The New Sin: Infogluttony", Outlook India December 24, 1999
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- Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia With C.P. Chandrasekhar(2001)
- The Market that Failed: A Decade of Neoliberal Economic Reforms in India (2002)
- edited the forthcoming Economics of the New Imperialism.
She was the principal author of the West Bengal Human Development Report which has received the UNDP Prize for excellence in analysis. In addition to her many scholarly articles, she writes regular columns on economics and current affairs for Frontline magazine, Businessline, the Bengali newspaper Ganashakti, Deccan Chronicle, and Asian Age. Professor Ghosh lives in New Delhi.
