Revealed Preference of Government, Cambridge University Press, 1980.
The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory, Basil Blackwell, 1984.
Agrarian Structure and Economic Development, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990. This book is part of the series, Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, edited by J. Lesourne and H. Sonnenschein.
Economic Graffiti: Essays for Everyone, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Lectures in Industrial Organization Theory, Basil Blackwell, 1993.
(editor, with Mukul Majumdar and Tapan Mitra) Capital, Investment and Development, Basil Blackwell, 1993.
(editor, with Pulin Nayak) Development Policy and Economic Theory, Oxford University Press, 1992.
(editor) Some Agrarian Questions, Oxford University Press, 1994.
(editor, with Prasanta Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura) Development, Welfare and Ethics, Clarendon Press, 1995.
Of People, Of Places: Sketches from an Economist's Notebook, Oxford University Press, 1994.
(editor, with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India's Secular Identity, Penguin paperback, New Delhi, 1996.
Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited, The MIT Press, 1997.
Prelude to Political Economy: A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics, Oxford University Press, 2000.
(editor) Readings in Political Economy, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
(editor, with Henrik Horn, Lisa Roman and Judith Shapiro) International Labor Standards, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond, The MIT Press, 2004.
Collected Theoretical Papers, Volume 1: Development, Markets and Institutions, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Collected Theoretical Papers, Volume 2: Rationality, Games and Strategic Behavior, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
(editor) Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.