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Faculty

Dr. Suchandra Basu

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Suchandra Basu

Department, Office, or School: Department of Economics and Finance; School of Business

Associate Professor

sbasu@ric.edu
401-456-9518
Alger Hall, 213

Education

MA, Ph.D. in Economics, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
B.Sc. in Economics, Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta, India

Selected Publications

“Does Activism Matter?:The Case of Environmental Policy in the U.S. States” (with Nirupama Devaraj), forthcoming in the International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 41, Issue 11, 2014

“Spatial Relationships between Race, Poverty, and Environmental Quality in Northwest Indiana” (co-authored with Nirupama Devaraj and Bharath GaneshBabu), Journal of the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences, Vol. XIII, 2009

Courses

Econ 215: Principles of Macroeconomics
Econ 433: Economics of the Government
Econ 462: Seminar in Economic Research

Specializations

Environmental and Energy Regulation, Political Economy, Public Economics, Economics Pedagogy, Applied Econometrics.