Mihir Rakshit
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Mihir Kanti Rakshit is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...
, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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), is one of India's most prominent Keynesian
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macroeconomists.
Education and Teaching Career
Rakshit graduated with a B.A.Bachelor of Arts
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in economics from Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was to later spend most of his career. He completed his M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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from the University of Calcutta
University of Calcutta
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and was appointed a Reader
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in the Economics Department at the University of Burdwan. He then went to pursue his PhD
PHD
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at the London School of Economics
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, initially under Dr Richard Lipsey
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and then under Dr S Andrew Ozga. The title of his doctoral thesis or the year of award is not presently available in public.
Professor Rakshit served as a professor and head of the department of Economics at Presidency College, Calcutta and then chaired the Economics Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute
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, Calcutta. He also served as faculty in the Delhi School of Economics
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, and the Erasmus University
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, Rotterdam
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, Netherlands
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. His field of research includes transnational macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
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and crises and recovery in developing economies.
He is presently the director of Monetary Research Project at Investment, Information and Crediting Agency (ICRA), Calcutta. He is the president of Annual Econometric Society. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Money and Finance.
External links
Mihir Rakshit (OUP 2008) http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=144746Mihir Rakshit (OUP 2008) http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=144747
Mihir Rakshit (Orient Longman, 1993 http://books.global-investor.com/books/227406/Mihir-Rakshit/Trade,-Mercantile-Capital-and-Economic-Development/
Mihir Rakshit (Macmillan, 2001) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0391027808
Money and Finance http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:mf&type=home
Cornell University
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, April 19-20, 2002
Ila Patnaik, Asian Currency Crisis Revisited http://www.epw.org.in/epw/uploads/articles/3655.pdf