March 27–28, 1998

Colleagues and students to honor economist Srinivasan

Colleagues and former students of Yale economist T.N. Srinivasan will celebrate his more than 35 years of contributions to the fields of international and development economics at a Festschrift Conference being held on campus Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28.

The conference in honor of Srinivasan, who holds the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professorship of Economics, is sponsored by the economics department and the Economic Growth Center. The event will be held in Rm. B-74 of the School of Management, 135 Prospect St. Among the topics that will be discussed are "Trade and Regional Integration," "Linear Production and Growth," "Economic Growth," "Trade and Environment," "General Equilibrium," "Trade Liberalization and Growth in India" and "Trade Theory, Wages and Exchange Rates." All the talks are free and open to the public. For a complete program and to register, call 432-3612.

A native of India, Srinivasan earned his B.A. at the University of Madras and holds both a M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale (1958 and 1962, respectively). He was a professor and, later, a research professor at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi 1964–77. He joined the Yale faculty in 1980 and currently chairs the economics department. He was director of the Economic Growth Center 1996-97.

Srinivasan has worked extensively with the World Bank, serving as special adviser to the Development Research Center 1977–80, as a member of the editorial board of the World Bank Review 1986–91 and as a consultant to the World Development Report in 1991 and to the Economic Development Institute in 1995.

He has published extensively on such topics as international trade, development, agricultural economics, political economy and microeconomic theory. His most recent book, "Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System: From the GATT (1947) to the Uruguay Round and the Future Beyond," has just been published. He is also coauthor of "Lectures on International Trade," "India's Economic Reforms" and "Agricultural Growth and Redistribution of Income." He is coeditor of "The Handbook of Development Economics" (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) and "Rural Poverty in South Asia," among other volumes. He has coedited several journals, including Econometrica and the Journal of Development Economics.

Srinivasan is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.