Sudha Shenoy

Infobox Economist
school_tradition = Austrian School
color = #B0C4DE
name = Sudha Shenoy


nationality = Indian/Australian flagicon|India flagicon|Australia
field = Austrian Economics, Economic History
birth = India flagicon|India
work_institution = University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr Sudha Shenoy, Ph.D (born 1943, died 2008), was an Austrian school economist and economic historian. From 1986 to 2004, Dr Shenoy worked as a lecturer in economics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. She was an Honorary Associate in Economic History at the School of Policy and an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Shenoy’s father was Professor Bellikoth Shenoy, an eminent Indian economist who studied under Freidrich Hayek at the London School of Economics.

Articles and positions

Dr Shenoy published many articles on economic history and economic development and development and also compiled and edited Freidrich Hayek’s book "‘A Tiger by the Tail: The Keynesian Legacy of Inflation’".

Dr Shenoy was a strong advocate of free trade and a critic of central planning and the welfare state. She was also highly critical of mainstream economics and especially the widespread adoption in mainstream economics of the methods of the natural sciences; she believed that, as a result of this methodology, mainstream economics was hopelessly removed from the real world [Cite web|url=http://mises.org/journals/aen/aen23_4_1.pdf |title=Austrian Economics Newsletter, Winter 2003, p. 4] . In a 2003 interview she commented that:

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