DEEPAK LAL

[lal@econ.sscnet.ucla.edu] 

My major research focus recently has been on The Political Economy of
Poverty, Equity, and Growth. A book with this title (co-authored with H.
Myint), and based on a 21 country comparative study financed by the World
Bank, is to be published in early 1996.

My other major research interest has been the causes and consequences of
economic repression in developing countries.  A book collecting essays on
the subject, and covering a large number of developing countries around
the world, called The Repressed Economy appeared in 1993. Another
collection of policy related essays on a wide range of subjects, called
Against Dirigisme, appeared in 1994.

My current research is on the role of culture in development. This work is
by its nature interdisciplinary. It picks up on my earlier work on India,
published in the two volume The Hindu Equilibrium.  I am now attempting to
use similar economic reasoning to define and examine the role of cultural
variables on the economic evolution of the major civilizations of the
world over millenia. The Ohlin lectures I am giving in Stockholm on Factor
Endowments, Culture, and Politics, will form the basis of a book on this
subject.

I have continued to advise numerous governments and international agencies
on policy issues, as well as to provide pedagogic tools for students. The
latter include a four volume set of readings on Development Economics,
with a substantial introduction surveying the field which was published in
1992, and a revised edition (due in 1996) of my 1983 book, The Poverty of
Development Economics, which has been widely used and translated into
several languages including Chinese.