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BIO
Arun Kumar joined JNU in 1984 and retired as the Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair Professor in the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2015. He is currently the Malcolm Adiseshiah Chair Professor in the Institute of Social Sciences.
He has a Ph.D. in Economics from JNU and a Masters in Physics from Princeton University USA and Delhi University. He is a gold medalist of Delhi Higher Secondary Board and Delhi University. He has specialized in Development Economics, Public Finance and Public Policy and Macroeconomics. He was a part of the team to study the black economy for CBDT (1982-85).
The books published by him are The Black Economy, Higher Education, Indian Economy since Independence, Demonetization and GST. He authored the Alternative Budgets for 1993-94 and 1994-95 which proposed alternative economic policies for the country. He was a member of the Group producing the Alternative Economic Survey for 2 decades. He has written extensively on globalization and on issues of public policy both in academic journals and in the popular press and contributed to public discussions on policy since 1980. He was the Vice Chair of the manifesto drafting committee of the National Front in 1989 and the Convener of the Economics & Ecology Committee of AAP in 2013.
He has visited Pavia University, Italy and Humboldt and Leipzig Universities, Germany. UNAM, Mexico awarded him the Ricardo Prize in Economics for work in Development Economics. He was the group leader of the Committee for the pricing of SU30 MKI. He has participated in various social movements, like, Housing Rights. He was a member of the First Pay Commission of the Tibetan Government in Exile.