Professor Ajit Singh is graduated from Punjab University and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been teaching economics at Cambridge University since 1965. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University and Senior Fellow at Queens' College Cambridge. He has been a senior economic adviser to the governments of Mexico and Tanzania and a consultant to various organizations, including the World Bank, the ILO, UNCTAD and UNIDO. He is the author of Takeovers: Their Relevance to the Stockmarket and Theory of the Firm and co-author of Growth, Profitability and Valuation.

Professor Singh's current research interests fall into three broad areas: corporate organisation, 'de-industrialisation' in advanced economies; and industrialization and economic policy in emerging markets.

The papers to be discussed can be downloaded at: courses.umass.edu/econ802/