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Mausumi Das
Mausumi Das is currently a faculty member at the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics (DSE). Before joining DSE, she had taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and also held visiting position at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi Centre. Her area of specialisation is economic growth and development.
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Growth in India: Narratives and evidence
There are various narratives on the trajectory of India’s economic growth, and its key determining factors. This article analyses the recently released GDP data series at 2011-12 prices, extending back to 1950, to establish India’s actual growth trajectory. It also provides a theoretical explanation for the growth, and brings perspective to the role of the economic policies pursued at different stages of India’s economic history post-Independence.
Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s contribution to endogenous growth theory
What motivates people like Steve Jobs to spend time, money, and effort in developing new ideas despite the implicit hazard that ideas can easily be copied later? In this post, Mausumi Das contends that Nobel Laureate Paul Romer was the first economist who addressed this issue in a comprehensive manner and linked the economics of ideas to the economics of growth within a coherent macroeconomic framework.