# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deepak-lal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:20.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deepak-lal"
name: "Deepak Lal"
slug: "deepak-lal"
description: "Deepak Kumar Lal was an Indian-born British liberal economist, author, professor and consultant. Best known for his 1983 book, The Poverty of “Development Economics\", Lal was also known for bucking conventional assumptions and for multidisciplinary approaches to thorny economic problems. His proposed solutions were typically in the vein of Hayek or the Austrian School of economic thinking."
tagline: "Indian-born British economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/30._ISC-Symposium-Deepak_Lal-HSGN_028-01524.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-01-03"
deathDate: "2020-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.econ.ucla.edu/lal/"
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    title: "Deepak Lal"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump