New Delhi: June 5, 2008: 0800hrs
The economic historian – and a leading Indian liberal – Sudha Shenoy has passed away, after a long battle with cancer, and the tributes have just started pouring in.
There is a post by Ralph Raico on Sudha and her illustrious father, Professor B R Shenoy, on the Lew Rockwell blog; there is a more detailed academic biography on The Political Economist.
Sudha’s father, BR Shenoy, has gone down in history as the only official economist to pen a “Note of Dissent” to Jawaharlal Nehru’s ambitious Second Five-Year Plan. This is the Plan by which Nehru started “heavy industrialization” under the State. Shenoy was hounded out of academia in India because of his dissent, and died in relative obscurity. Peter Bauer called him “a hero and a saint”.
Sudha followed her father into liberal economics and contributed a great deal to the important discourses of the day – especially the battle with Keynesianism and inflationism. Her Tiger by the Tail – a compilation of Hayek’s writings on the subject – is a must read for every student of Economics.
I never met Sudha Shenoy, but we corresponded – and she guided me in my journeys into economic history and law. I benefited from the correspondence. I will miss the guidance and the warm pen-friendship.
The economic historian – and a leading Indian liberal – Sudha Shenoy has passed away, after a long battle with cancer, and the tributes have just started pouring in.
There is a post by Ralph Raico on Sudha and her illustrious father, Professor B R Shenoy, on the Lew Rockwell blog; there is a more detailed academic biography on The Political Economist.
Sudha’s father, BR Shenoy, has gone down in history as the only official economist to pen a “Note of Dissent” to Jawaharlal Nehru’s ambitious Second Five-Year Plan. This is the Plan by which Nehru started “heavy industrialization” under the State. Shenoy was hounded out of academia in India because of his dissent, and died in relative obscurity. Peter Bauer called him “a hero and a saint”.
Sudha followed her father into liberal economics and contributed a great deal to the important discourses of the day – especially the battle with Keynesianism and inflationism. Her Tiger by the Tail – a compilation of Hayek’s writings on the subject – is a must read for every student of Economics.
I never met Sudha Shenoy, but we corresponded – and she guided me in my journeys into economic history and law. I benefited from the correspondence. I will miss the guidance and the warm pen-friendship.
Thanks for this post. I too am a SHENOY. Warms heart to read about a fellow Shenoy. Touching too.--->
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