User:Subroto Roy

Subroto Roy went from St. Paul's School, Darjeeling to Haleybury College, Hertford, England completing GCE Advanced and Special Levels in physics, chemistry and biology in 1973. He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1976 with a first class honours degree in the BSc Econ specialising in mathematical economics, econometrics, monetary economics and international economics. In 1982, he was awarded the PhD in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge; where Professor Frank Hahn had been supervisor, Professor CJ Bliss of Oxford University and Professor Terence W Hutchison of Birmingham University were Examiners of his doctoral thesis "On liberty and economic growth: preface to a philosophy for India".

He has taught economics and/or finance at several Cambridge colleges, the Delhi School of Economics, Virginia Tech, Cornell University, Brigham Young University, UH-Manoa, IIT Kharagpur, University of Buckingham. He has been a consultant at the World Bank and the IMF in Washington, and worked briefly on Wall Street. He was a policy advisor to Rajiv Gandhi (1990–91), and has been contributing editor to The Statesman newspaper.

His edited work with John Clarke *Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How It Happened and What It Meant*, 2005 is already mentioned at Citizendium.

Other edited books include(with William E James)


 * Foundations of Pakistan's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s*, 1993


 * Foundations of India's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s*, 1992

Other authored books include


 * Philosophy of Economics: On the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry*, Routledge 1989, 1991


 * Pricing, Planning & Politics: A Study of Economic Distortions in India*, London IEA 1984.