Can Economic, Political, and Public Health Realities Align?

Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He was earlier the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Basu served as Chief Economic Adviser to the government of India. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and received the title Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian awards given by the President of India. Dr. Basu’s contributions span development economics, welfare economics, industrial organization, and game theory.

In addition to Cornell, Dr. Basu has taught at the Delhi School of Economics, Harvard, Princeton, and MIT. He has published widely in academic journals and has contributed articles to many widely read magazines and newspapers. Dr. Basu has also written several books, including “Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics” (Princeton University Press and Penguin) and “An Economist in the Real World: the Art of Policymaking in India” (MIT Press).

Dr. Basu holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has received honorary doctorates from several institutes, including IIT in Mumbai, and Fordham University in New York.

Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., is the Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has served on numerous national committees and boards of directors, as the chair of the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, as the John Fry Fellow at the Nuffield Trust in London, as a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Health Advisors, and as a senior advisor to the director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Casalino currently serves as a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

Linda Barrington is the Associate Dean for External Relations in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business as well as the executive director of Cornell’s Institute for Compensation Studies. Dr. Barrington’s published research addresses employee compensation, gender issues in the workplace, employees with disabilities, and workforce demographics.