Handbook of Hindu Economics and Business Paperback - 2013

Hrishikesh D. Vinod is a professor of Economics and director of the Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy at Fordham University, NY. He received his MA from the Delhi School of Economics and Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard University, has worked at Bell Laboratories for many years, and had been an expert witness in major anti-trust trials. He has published over a hundred articles in top journals in Economics-related fields including: Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Business, Journal of Advertising Research, etc. He has edited special issues and refereed for many journals. In 1996, he was named a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. Maharashtra Foundation honored him for outstanding social service in 1998. Vinod managed a worldwide anti-corruption project before it was fashionable to talk about it. Vinod co-edited volume 11 of the Handbook of Statistics with C. R. Rao, the famous statistician. In August 2005 he organized an international conference on entrepreneurship and human rights at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University. Vinod has coauthored a Marcel Dekker book on Regression methods and a Wiley monograph on Downside risk in stock market investing. His two recent books: Hands-on Intermediate Econometrics Using R and Hands on Matrix Algebra Using R were published by World Scientific. Vinod has edited a book entitled Advances in Social Science Research using R, which is published by Springer. He had organized an international conference on Hinduism and Economics in 2011 in New York, which was widely covered in the media.