Professor and Graduate Program Director
103 Crotty Hall
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Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Ohio State University, 2008
M.A., Economics, Ohio State University, 2003
M.Phil., Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 1999
M.A., Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 1997
B.Tech., Mech Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1994
Professional Experience:
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, 2008-2009
Research Interests:
Classical political economy
Political economy of development (with a focus on India)
Applied econometrics
Teaching:
Introductory Econometrics
Introduction to Marxist Political Economy
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Applied Time Series Econometrics
Honors and Awards:
G S Maddala Student Prize in Econometrics, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, 2007
Selected Publications:
Technical Change, Constant Rate of Exploitation and the Falling Rate of Profit in Linear Production Economies (with Oscar Orellana), Metroeconomica, forthcoming.
“Exploitation of Labor or Exploitation of Commodities?” Review of Radical Political Economics, forthcoming.
World Profit Rates, 1960-2019 (with Julio Huato, Jesus Lara Jauregui and Evan Wasner), Review of Political Economy, forthcoming.
A Reformulated Version of Marx's Theory of Ground-Rent Shows that there Cannot be any Absolute Rent. Review of Radical Political Economics, 54(4), 542–567. 2022.
The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021.
What to Make of the Kaldor-Verdoorn Law? (with Manya Budhiraja) Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 6, November 2021, Pages 1243--68.
Majoritarian Politics and Hate Crimes Against Religious Minorities: Evidence from India, 2009–2018, World Development, Volume 146, October 2021, 105540.
Conflict, Demand and Economic Development: Essays in Honor of Amit Bhaduri (co-edited with De-barshi Das). New Delhi: Routledge. 2021.
Lockdown Effect on COVID-19 Spread in India: National Data Masking State-Level Trends, (with Maxwell Salvatore, Michael Kleinsasser, Soumik Purkayastha, Rupam Bhattacharya, Debashree Ray and Bhramar Mukherjee) BMJ Open, December 2020, 10 (12) e041778; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041778.
Profitability or Industrial Relations: What Explains Industrial Performance Across Indian States? (with Anirban Karak), Development and Change, Vol. 51, Issue 3, May 2020, pp. 817–842.
Bias of OLS Estimators due to Exclusion of Relevant Variables and Inclusion of Irrelevant Variables, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 82, No. 1, February 2020, pp. 209-234.
