Market Institutions, Governance, and Development

Development economics has changed dramatically over the past quarter century with less direct intervention in trade and industry, and more on the role of the state in enhancing institutional infrastructure in a market economy. This collection comments on a range of contentious subject in development economics such as competition and incentives, tax administration, inequality control rights, and decentralization.

Dilip Mookherjee Professor of Economics and Director, Institute for Economic Development at Boston University. Educated at Presidency College Calcutta, Delhi School of Economics, and London School of Economics, he has taught previously at Stanford University, and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.