Deepankar Basu

Deepankar Basu is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on classical political economy, development economics, and applied econometrics.

Research interests include:

• Marxist economic theory
• Political economy of development in India
• Econometric analysis of economic systems
• Global profit rate trends

His recent publications examine labor exploitation mechanisms and long-term trends in global capitalism, with particular attention to value theory and surplus extraction in contemporary economic systems.