Padma Desai, economist, 1931–2023
In this Financial Times obituary, Shruti Rajagopalan remembers Padma Desai as a pioneering economist whose work on planning, industrial policy, and transition economies shaped debates on India’s reform trajectory and beyond.
Read the full article: https://www.ft.com/content/f7da279a-28e6-455d-9036-69973921c113
Shruti Rajagopalan
Senior Research Fellow
Shruti Rajagopalan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law. She leads the India Political Economy Program and Emergent Ventures India at the Mercatus Center.
