Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai, of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster FRSA (* July 10, 1940 in Vadodara, Gujarat, India) is a native of India British agronomist, economist, university lecturer and Labour Party politician, who since 1991 is a life peer member of the House of Lords.

Life

University teacher

After schooling Desai holds a degree in agricultural and economics at the University of Mumbai, where he graduated in 1960 with a master. After he completed with the financial support of a scholarship postgraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Doctor of Philosophy there in 1963 ( Ph.D.). He was subsequently 1963-1965 Research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley. After his arrival in the UK he began in 1965 his work on the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE), where he was first Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer 1977-1980 and 1980-1983 Reader. In 1983, he eventually became Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics at the LSE and taught there until his retirement in 2003. Besides that, he was at the same time between 1990 and 1995 Head of the Institute of Development Studies, as well as between 1992 and 2003 also director of the Center for the studies of global governance.

In addition, Desai began in the mid -1980s, his political commitment to the Labour Party and was 1986-1992 chairman of the Labour Party in the constituency of Islington South and Finsbury. At the same time, he served from 1987 to 1990 as president of the Association of University Teachers of Economics.

House of Lords member

By Letters Patent of 5 June 1991 Desai, who was 1991-1992 Member of the Executive Committee of the Fabian Society, and from 1991 to 1994 the Council of the Royal Economic Society was, as a life peer with the title Baron Desai, of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster elevated to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.

During his many years of membership in the House of Lords Lord Desai was between 1991 and 1994 Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the opposition Labour group, and at the same time from 1991 to 1993 opposition spokesman for health and between 1992 and 1993 for the Treasury (Treasury ) and economic affairs.

Lord Desai, who between 1998 and 2002 was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Marshall Aid Commission 1995-2003 Member of the Executive Committee of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ( IPU ) and, in 1991, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has received honorary doctorates from the Kingston University ( Hon D.Sc., 1992), Middlesex University (1993 ), the University of East London ( 1994), London Guildhall University ( Hon D.Phil. , 1996) and Monash University ( Hon. LL.D.. , 2005).

2011 Lord Desai candidate for the post of Lord Speaker, however, finished second in the first three rounds with 78, 79 and 92 votes respectively only the third place among the five candidates and withdrew his candidacy for the other fourth ballot. Ultimately, was the fifth ballot with 296 votes, which belongs to the Crossbenchers Frances D' Souza, Baroness D' Souza elected, which thus could scarce prevail against Anthony Hamilton -Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn of the Conservative Party, who received 285 votes.

Publications

In his numerous publications dealt Lord Desai, who is married to the writer and Costa Book Award winner Kishwar Desai, not only with economic issues such as the Marxist economic theory, but also with its Indian homeland and personalities like actor Dilip Kumar. His best-known books include:

  • Marxian Economic Theory (1974 )
  • Applied Econometrics (1976 )
  • Marxian Economics ( 1979)
  • Testing Monetarism (1981 )
  • Cambridge Economic History of India, 2 volumes ( co-editor, 1983)
  • Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia ( co-editor, 1984)
  • Lectures on Advanced Econometric Theory ( editor, 1988)
  • Lenin 's Economic Writings (editor, 1989)
  • Marx 's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism (2002)
  • Nehru 's Hero: Dilip Kumar in the Life of India 1944-1964 (2004)
  • Development and Nationhood: Essays in the Political Economy of South Asia ( 2004)
  • Why is India a Democracy ( 2005)
  • The Route of All Evil: The Political Economy of Ezra Pound (2006)
  • Rethinking Islamism
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