Pranab Bardhan

Books

  1. Scarcity, Conflicts and Cooperation: Essays in Political and Institutional Economics of Development (MIT Press, December 2004).
    Preface
    Ch. 1: History, Institutions and Underdevelopment (with tables) |
    Ch. 2: Distributive Conflicts and the Persistence of Inefficient Institutions |
    Ch. 3: Power: Some Conceptual Issues
    Ch. 4: Political Economy and Credible Commitment: A Review
    Ch. 5: Democracy and Poverty: The Peculiar Case of India
    Ch. 6: Decentralization of Governance
    Ch. 7: Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels
    Ch. 8: Corruption
    Ch. 9: Ethnic Conflicts: Method in the Madness?
    Ch.10: Collective Action and Cooperation
    Ch. 11: Irrigation and Cooperation: An Empirical Study
    Ch. 12: Global Rules, Markets and the Poor
  2. Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, co-edited with Jean-Marie Baland and Samuel Bowles, Princeton University Press, 2006.
  3. International Trade, Growth and Development, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2003.
  4. Poverty, Agrarian Structure, and Political Economy in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003.
  5. Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution, coedited with Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein, Princeton University Press, 2006.
  6. Decentralization to Local Governments in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective, coedited with Dilip Mookherjee, MIT Press, 2006.
  7. The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists, co-edited with Isha Ray, Blackwell Publishers, 2008.

    A. Political Economy and Governance

  1. "Political Participation, Clientelism and Targeting of Local Government Programs: Analysis of Survey Results from Rural West Bengal, India" (jointly with S. Mitra, D. Mookherjee and A. Sarkar), February 2008
  2. "Poverty, Inequality and Reforms in India", slides of talk given at Columbia University, October 2006
  3. "Resistance to Economic Reforms in India", YaleGlobal Online, October 2006
  4. "Governance Matters in Economic Reforms in India", slides of Brookings/NCAER Public Lecture in New Delhi, July
  5. "The Economist's Approach to the Problem of Corruption", World Development February 2006.
  6. ""Ideology vs. Competition in Redistributive Politics: Land Reforms in West Bengal (with Dilip Mookherjee), September 2007
  7. "Opposition to Market Reforms", Economic and Political Weekly, November 26, 2005.
  8. "Law and Development", forthcoming in A.K. Dutt and J. Ros (eds.), International Handbook of Development Economics, vol. II, Elgar.
  9. "Political Economy of India", in K. Basu (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006.
  10. Decentralization, Corruption and Government Accountability: An Overview", in Susan Rose-Ackerman (ed.), Handbook of Economic Corruption, Edward Elgar Publishing (jointly with Dilip Mookherjee), 2006.
  11. "Democracy and Distributive Politics in India," forthcoming in I. Shapiro, P. Swenson and D. Donno (eds.), Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies, New York University Press, (April 2005).
  12. "Political Competition in Economic Perspective" (with Tsung-Tao Yang) , Economics Dept. Working Paper, Berkeley, July 2004.
  13. "The Politics of Economic Reform in India," [~124k pdf] in P. Bardhan, Poverty, Agrarian Structure, and Political Economy in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. 2003.
  14. with Dilip Mookherjee, "Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments," [~217k pdf], plus figures 1-3 [26k]; CIDER Working Paper C99-109 (November 1999); also in Eskeland, G., Devarajan, S., and Zou, H.F. (Eds.), Fiscal Decentralization: Promises and Pitfalls, World Bank, forthcoming. A shorter version of the paper has been published in American Economic Review, May 2000.
  15. "Democracy and Development: A Complex Relationship", [~57k pdf] , in I. Shapiro and C. Hacker-Cordon (eds.), Democracy's Values, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

    B. Institutional Economics

  16. "Institutions, Trade, and Economic Development", paper for UNCTAD, Geneva, August 2006
  17. " Institutional Economics of Development: Some General Reflections," Opening Lecture at CESifo/BREAD conference on Institutional Economics at San Servolo, Italy, July 2006.
  18. "Institutions and Development", in David Clark (ed.), Elgar Companion to Development Studies, Elgar, 2006.
  19. "Institutions Matter, but Which Ones?" in a symposium on Institutions edited by Abhijit Banerjee and Maitreesh Ghatak, Economics of Transition, July, 2005.
  20. "Institutional Economics of Development, slides of LACEA Plenary Lecture," October 2007

    21. C. Globalization

  21. "Middleman Margins and Globalization", (with D. Mookherjee and M. Tsumagari), September 2007
  22. "Does Globalization Help or Hurt the World's Poor?", Scientific American, April 2006.
  23. "Globalization and Rural Poverty", World Development, August 2006.
  24. "Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty: An Overview "[~251k pdf] (May 2005).
  25. "The Impact of Globalization on the Poor", in S. Collins and C. Graham (eds.), Brookings Trade Forum 2004, Brookings Institution.
  26. "Social Justice in the Global Economy,"[~128k pdf] September 2000, (first delivered as ILO's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa), now published by ILO, Geneva, 2000.
  27. Poverty and Inequality in China and India: Elusive Link with Globalisation Economic and Political Weekly, September 2007

    D. Decentralization

  28. "Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal" (with Dilip Mookherjee), Journal of Development Economics April 2006.
  29. with Dilip Mookherjee, "Decentralisation and Accountability in Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries" [~226k pdf], May 2000, Economic Journal, January 2006; plus Figs 1-6 [~67k pdf]
  30. with Dilip Mookherjee, "Decentralizing Anti-Poverty Program Delivery in Developing Countries" [~230k pdf], March 2000; Journal of Public Economics 2005.
  31. "Poverty Alleviation Effort of West Bengal Panchayats" (with Dilip Mookherjee), Economic and Political Weekly, February 2004.
  32. "Decentralization and Governance in Development" [~291k pdf] in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, fall 2002.

    E. Collective Action

  33. with Maitreesh Ghatak, and Alex Karaivanov, "Wealth Inequality and Collective Action," [~497k pdf] Journal of Public Economics,September 2007
  34. "Inequality, Coalitions and Collective Action" (with Nirvikar Singh), Economics Dept. Working Paper, Berkeley, April 2005.
  35. with Jeff Dayton-Johnson, "Unequal Irrigators: Heterogeneity and Commons Management in Large-Scale Multivariate Research,"[~222k pdf] in National Research Council. The Drama of the Commons, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2002.
  36. with Jeff Dayton-Johnson, "Inequality and Conservation on the Local Commons: A Theoretical Exercise" [~330k pdf] (August 1999); plus Figure 1 [~16k pdf], in The Economic Journal (July 2002).
  37. "Water Community: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperation on Irrigation in South India", [~57k pdf] June 1999, in M. Aoki and Y. Hayami (eds.), Community and Market in Economic Development, 2001.

    F. China-India

  38. "Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: A Brief Assessment of the Rise of China and India", Journal of South Asian Development, April 2006 .
  39. What Makes a Miracle: Some Myths about the Rise of China and India Boston Review January/February 2008.
  40. "Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India" , forthcoming in K. Basu and R Kanvur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Vol II, Oxford University Press.
  41. "The State of Health Services in China and India in a Larger Context" forthcoming in Health Affairs, July/August 2008

    42. G. Others

  42. "Land Reform and Farm Productivity in West Bengal", September 2007
  43. "Managing the Environmental Consequences of Growth: Forest Degradation in the Indian MidHimalayas" (with J.M. Baland, S. Das, D. Mookherjee, and R.Sarkar), India Policy Forum, vol. 3, 2007
  44. "Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons" (with Isha Ray), Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 2006 .
  45. "Varieties of Capitalism, None Overarching", YaleGlobal Online December 2006
  46. "The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal", (with J.M. Baland, S. Das, D. Mookherjee, and R. Sarkar), June 2007.
  47. "Theory or Empirics in Development Economics" for a symposium edited by Ravi Kanbur in Economic and Political Weekly, October 1, 2005.
  48. "Journal Publication in Economics: A View from the Periphery," [~18k pdf], Economic Journal, June 2003.
  49. "Artfilms, Handicrafts and Other Cultural Goods: The Case for Subsidy" (with Cecile Aubert and Jeff Dayton-Johnson), Economics Dept. Working Paper, Berkeley, June 2004.
  50. with Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles, "Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints, and Economic Performance." [~675k pdf] A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, eds., Handbook on Income Distribution, Elsevier, 2000. (CIDER Working Paper C98-097).
  51. "A Powerful, but Limited, Theory of Development: A Review Article on Lectures on Economic Growth by Robert E. Lucas," [~161k pdf] Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 2004.
  52. Questioning Milton Friedman's Free Market and Freedom Yale Global Online January 2007

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