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Deepak Lal
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Deepak Kumar Lal (1940 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian economist, writer, professor and consultant focused on the subject of liberal economics. Best known for his 1983 book, The Poverty of “Development Economics", Lal was also known for bucking conventional assumptions and for multidisciplinary approaches to thorny economic problems. His proposed solutions were typically in the vein of Hayek or the Austrian School of economic thinking.
He was born in Lahore on 3 January 1940. He attended the Doon School in Dehradun, India. He studied history at St. Stephen's College of the University of Delhi, graduating in 1959. He then studied at Jesus College, Oxford, receiving a BA in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1962, and a BPhil in economics in 1965. From 1963 to 1966, overlapping with his time at Oxford, he was a junior member of India's diplomatic corps, the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), but resigned.
In 1966, he taught at Jesus College, Oxford. The 1989 American Economic Review directory lists him as a lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford from 1966 to 1968, and as a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1993, he taught at University College London., becoming a reader in 1979 and a professor in 1984. The 1989 American Economic Review directory listed his research interests as "North-South issues, labor markets in developing countries". In 1978, he was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.
From 1999, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies. He was also a research fellow of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia.
He was a consultant to the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Indian Planning Commission, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Planning Ministries of Sri Lanka and South Korea.
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