Ajit Singh (1940-2015)

F.M. Scherer

Introduction

Ajit Singh was a highly productive member of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics, with extensive publications spanning many areas, but with an emphasis on the linkages among capitalistic industrial enterprise, financial markets, and economic development.

Born in 1940 in what became a part of Pakistan under the partition of 1947, he took his undergraduate degree at India’s Punjab University. After establishing new roots and receiving a master’s degree at Cambridge, he completed his PhD studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970. Meanwhile, he became a University Lecturer at Cambridge in 1968 and was awarded a full Professorship Chair in 1995, entering mandatory retirement (at least officially) in 2007 until his death in 2015. He issued a stream of publications despite health problems that could stall the careers of less energetic scholars. This survey, emphasizing works that are widely cited, according to Google Scholar, can only cover the highlights. The reader is referred to his curriculum vitae for a comprehensive articulation. My review of his writings

F.M. Scherer (и)

Aetna Professor Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,

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R.A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics,

DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-41233-1_50

for this chapter revealed that we have been ploughing parallel furrows on many occasions, so I will refer to my own work with immodest frequency.