Books – Authored by Kaushik Basu

[1] Revealed Preference of Government, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1980.


[2] The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory, Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1984.
Indian edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1985.
Paperback edition, Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Japanese translation, Seibundo Press, Tokyo, 1987.
Paperback edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987.
First reprint, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Second reprint, Oxford University Press, 1990.

[3] Agrarian Structure and Economic Development, Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur and London, 1990. This book is part of the series, J. Lesourne and H. Sonnenschein (eds.) Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics.


[4] Economic Graffiti: Essays for Everyone, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991.
First Reprint, 1991.
Second Reprint, 1994.
Bengali translation, Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, 1993.


[5] Lectures in Industrial Organization Theory, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1993.
First Reprint 1994.


[6] Of People, Of Places: Sketches from an Economist’s Notebook, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994. [Extract “Waiting for a Tiger,” reprinted in an English literature reader for middle school students: Literature Reader 7: A Multi-Skill Course in English, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2004.]


[7] Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
Hardback edition for South Asia,Oxford University Press, 1998.
Paperback reprint, Oxford University Press, 1998


[8] Prelude to Political Economy: A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics, Oxford University Press, U.K., 2000. Paperback edition, 2004.


[9] Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics. Volume 1: Development, Markets and Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2005.

[10] Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics. Volume 2: Rationality, Games and Strategic Behaviour, Oxford University Press, 2005.


[11] Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics. Volume 3: Welfare, Law and Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2007.


[12] Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics. Volume 4: Inter-Disciplinary Transgressions, Oxford University Press, 2010.
All four volumes issued in Boxed Set in 2010.
First reprint of Boxed Set in 2011.


[13] Collected Theoretical Papers in Economics. Volume 5: Economic Policy and Its Theoretical Bases, Oxford University Press, 2018, forthcoming.

[14] The Retreat of Democracy and Other Itinerant Essays on Globalization, Economics and India, Permanent Black, 2007.
Italian translation, Ele Bele: India e le illusioni della democrazia globale, published by Laterza and Figli, Rome, 2008.
English edition for global release by Anthem Press, London, 2010.


[15] Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2010.
Penguin edition for South Asia region, 2011.
Italian translation, Guiseppe Laterza and Figli, Rome, 2013.
Chinese translation, The Oriental Press, Hong Kong, 2013.
Spanish translation, 2014.
Russian translation, Gaidar Foundation, Moscow, 2014.
Japanese translation, NTT Publishers, 2016.
French translation, Les Editions de L’Atelier, Paris (with a Preface by Gael Giraud),
2017.

[16] An Economist’s Miscellany, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011.
First reprint 2011.
Second reprint, 2011
Third reprint, 2011

[17] An Economist’s Miscellany: From the Groves of Academe to Raisina Hill, An Expanded Edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019.
Chinese translation, CITC Beijing, forthcoming.

[18] An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India, MIT Press, 2015.
South Asian edition: Random House Penguin 2016.
Chinese translation, 2017.

[19] Arthaniti, Samaj O Unnoyon (Economics, Society and Development) — a selection of my papers, from various journals, translated into Bengali, Editor: Ananda Das Gupta, Parampara Prakashan, Kolkata, 2017.

[20] The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics, Princeton University Press, 2018.
Chinese edition, CITIC, Beijing, June 2020.
South Asian edition, Random House Penguin, 2018
Spanish edition, 2018.
Polish edition, February 2020.
First paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 2020.

[21] From Raisina Hill to Bretton Woods: A Policymaker’s Diary, Simon and Schuster,
forthcoming 2021.

Books – Edited by Kaushik Basu

[1] Capital, Investment and Development,(edited with Mukul Majumdar and Tapan Mitra), Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
Indian paperback edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998.


[2] Development Policy and Economic Theory, (edited with Pulin Nayak), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992.
First Reprint, 1994.


[3] Some Agrarian Questions, editor, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994.


[4] Development, Welfare and Ethics, (edited with Prasanta Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.


[5] Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity, (edited with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) Penguin paperback, New Delhi, 1996.


[6] International Labor Standards: History, Theory and Policy Options, (edited with Henrik Horn, Lisa Roman and Judith Shapiro), Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Paperback edition, 2004.


[7] Readings in Political Economy (Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics), editor, Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Paperback edition, 2003.


[8] Markets and Governments, (edited with Pulin Nayak and Ranjan Ray), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003.


[9] India’s Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond, editor, The M.I.T. Press, 2004.
Paperback edition by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005


[10] Oxford Companion to Economics in India, editor, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Revised edition, 2007.

[11] The Concise Oxford Companion to Economics in India, (edited with Annemie Maertens),
Oxford University Press, 2010.
First reprint 2010.


[12] The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, (edited with Annemie Maertens), in two volumes, Oxford University Press, 2011.

[13] Arguments for a Better World, Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen. Volume 1: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement, (edited with Ravi Kanbur), Oxford University Press, 2008.


[14] Arguments for a Better World, Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen. Volume 2:
Development, Society and Institutions, (edited with Ravi Kanbur), Oxford University Press, 2008.

[15] Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development, (edited with Bryan Maddox and Anna Robinson-Pant), Routledge, London, 2009.

[16] Inequality and Growth. Volume I. Inequality (edited, with Joseph Stiglitz), Palgrave
Macmillan, London. 2016.

[17] Inequality and Growth. Volume 2. Policy (edited, with Joseph Stiglitz), Palgrave Macmillan, London. 2016.

[18] Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption (edited, with Tito Cordella), Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2018.

[19] State of the World, State of Economics (edited, with David Rosenblatt and Claudia Sepulveda), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019.

[20] Law, Economics and Conflict (edited, with Robert Hockett), Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, forthcoming.

[21] Development, Distribution and Markets (edited, with M. Ghatak, K. Kletzer, S. Mundle and E. Verhoogen), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, forthcoming.