Economics, Management and Sustainability Essays in Honour of Anup Si

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s, Management and Sustainability Essays in Honour of Anup Sinha

Economics, Management and Sustainability

Partha Ray Runa Sarkar Anindya Sen •



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Economics, Management and Sustainability Essays in Honour of Anup Sinha

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Editors Partha Ray Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta Kolkata, India

Anindya Sen Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta Kolkata, India

Runa Sarkar Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta Kolkata, India

ISBN 978-981-13-1893-1 ISBN 978-981-13-1894-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1894-8

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Professor Anup K. Sinha

Preface

It is not very often that one comes across an individual who is an outstanding teacher, a well-known researcher, an able academic administrator and a warm, approachable human being. Professor Anup Sinha is one such person. He was educated in Presidency College, Kolkata; University of Rochester, New York; and University of Southern California, Los Angeles. After completing his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1983, he returned to Presidency College and taught at the Centre for Economic Studies for a number of years. In 1991, he decided to join the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) where he taught till his retirement in 2016. In his long career spanning more than four decades, he has been a visiting faculty in a number of institutions in India and abroad, including Indian Statistical Institute, University of Calcutta, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, University of Southern California, Washington Unive