- Bellikoth Shenoy
Infobox Economist
school = liberalism
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name = Professor Bellikoth Shenoy
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work_institution =Gujarat University Professor Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy, Ph.D (born 1905, died 1978), was aclassical liberal economist . He was a highly influential advocate of classical liberalism in India and was President of the Indian Economic Association and a member of theMont Pelerin Society .Shenoy was born near
Mangalore ,Karnataka inIndia . He studied economics atBenares Hindu University and later at theLondon School of Economics where he was highly influenced byFriedrich Hayek . In 1931 Shenoy became the first Indian economist to have a paper published in a leading scholarly journal. As a student, Shenoy participated in theIndian independence movement and was jailed at Nagpur where he was influenced byMadan Mohan Malaviya Professor Shenoy taught at Wadia College (Pune), the
University of Ceylon ,Gujarat University and theLondon School of Economics . He also worked at the Ceylon Commission on Currency, the Ceylon Department of Commerce, the Reserve Bank of India, theInternational Monetary Fund and theWorld Bank . After leaving academia, Professor Shenoy founded the Economic Research Centre in Delhi which advocated the ideas of classical liberalism.Notes
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