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Kaushik Basu
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 331
Citations - 13456
Kaushik Basu is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Wage. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 323 publications receiving 13030 citations. Previous affiliations of Kaushik Basu include Brookings Institution & Harvard University.
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Child labor and the law: Notes on possible pathologies
Kaushik Basu,Kaushik Basu +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that the standard policy for controlling child labor by imposing a fine on firms caught employing children can cause child labor to rise, however, this "pathological" reaction is reversed as the size of the fine increases.
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Globalization and the Politics of International Finance: The Stiglitz Verdict
TL;DR: Stiglitz's book, Globalization and Its Discontents as mentioned in this paper, sketches the unfairness of the global system and how institutions like the IMF perpetuate the asymmetries of power and wealth.
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Strategy Subsets Closed Under Rational Behaviour
Kaushik Basu,Jörgen W. Weibull +1 more
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Understanding Inflation and Controlling It
TL;DR: This article tried to bring together the formal analytics that underlie inflation policy and push further outwards the frontiers of our understanding, in the process, trying to push further and further into the theoretical frontiers.