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100			_aBasu, Kaushik _91864
245			_aAn economist in the real world: the art of policymaking in India
260			_bPenguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. _aHaryana _c2016
300			_axv, 240 p.
365			_aINR _b699.00
520			_aIn 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
650			_aPolitics and government _91893
650			_aEconomic development _91932
650			_aEconomic policy _92380
650			_aEconomists _92703
650			_aEmployees _92860
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