Dr. Sudha R. Shenoy passed away on 31 May 2008 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer.

A native of India and daughter of prominent Indian economist, Professor B. R. Shenoy, Dr Sudha was an Honorary Associate in Economic History at the School of Policy, University of Newcastle, Australia and a lecturer for the same from 1986 to 2004. She attended the London School of Economics, University of Virginia and also held visiting posts at the California State University, Hayward; Ohio University, Athens; George Mason University; and the Mises Institute, Alabama. She is the author of India: Progress or Poverty (London: IEA, 1971), Underdevelopment and Economic Growth (London: Longman, 1970), and her articles have been published in several journals including the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences as well as in various book chapters. She is also the editor of A Tiger By the Tail: The Keynesian Legacy of Inflation by F.A. Hayek (1972, 1978, and 1979).

As an Austrian economist, she was brilliant, remarkably learned in the social sciences, especially economics and economic and legal history. She was well versed on several topics like the common law, the history of international trade, and the life and work of F.A. Hayek, winner of the nobel prize for economics in 1974, and was always generous in sharing her knowledge. In her last days, she was working on a biography on Hayek and on the British economic history through 1914, showing the intertwined growth of common law, market order, and the capital structure.

She always emphasised on the importance of knowledge of economic history for a student of economics. You can find a reading list created by her for young economists and others interested in economic history here.

Indeed, the cause of liberty has lost a great champion!

An Introductory, Annotated Reading-List for Economists