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New School for Social Research
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reddys1@newschool.edu
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Sanjay Reddy

Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research

Sanjay G. Reddy is an Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research. His areas of work include development economics, international economics, and economics and philosophy.

Professor Reddy possesses a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in applied mathematics with physics from Harvard University. He has held fellowships from the Center for Ethics and the Professions, the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University, and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Most recently he received a research grant from the inaugural grants program of Institute for New Economic Thinking.

He has conducted extensive research for development agencies and international institutions, including the G-24 (group of developing countries), ILO, Oxfam, UNDESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN Secretariat), UNICEF, UNDP, UNU-WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research), UNRISD (UN Research Institute for Social Development), and the World Bank.

He has been a member of the advisory panel of the UNDP’s Human Development Report, and of the UN Statistics Division’s Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics and is a member of the advisory board of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He has been or is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Development, Ethics & International Affairs, the European Journal of Development Research, Humanity, the Review of Income and Wealth, and the Journal of Globalization and Development. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and is Editor of the New School India China Institute working paper series. His work has been translated into Catalan, French, German, and Portuguese. He is a citizen of India.

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Austerity, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Capitalism, Developing Economies, Economic Mobility, Economic Theory, Economy and Race, Efficient Government, Globalization, Government Investment, Healthcare, International Competition, Labor Force, Living Wage, Middle Class, Multi-national corporations, National Debt, Social Insurance, Social Investment, Trade, Wealth Creation, Welfare

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
M.Phil., Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
A.B., Applied Mathematics with Physics, Harvard University

Books:

International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (with Christian Barry), Columbia University Press, 2008.

Global Development Goals: The Folly of Technocratic Pretensions (with Antoine Heuty), Development Policy Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 5-28.

Has World Poverty Really Fallen? (with Camelia Minoiu), Review of Income and Wealth, September 2007, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 484-502.

Real Income Stagnation of Countries: 1960-2001. (with Camelia Minoiu), accepted and forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies.

International Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics., Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 33-48.

How Not to Count the Poor. (with Thomas Pogge), published in Debates in the Measurement of Poverty , ed. Joseph Stiglitz, Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal, Oxford University Press, 2009.