Rethinking Development Economics
28 August 2020
What will it take to acknowledge our own? Indian Economists before Independence
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Last week a discussion on a small WhatsApp group of Gokhale Institute alumni turned a bit acrimonious. It began with a general query on who ...
23 August 2020
Covid-19 has brought out the faultlines in Economics - will economists get this shift?
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" The weaknesses of the field of economics have long been known, but the Covid-19 pandemic has laid them bare. Of particular concern i...
22 July 2020
Perspectives from Africa on policy responses to Covid-19
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There is a very interesting set of interviews by Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin giving perspectives from Africa on the policy respons...
01 July 2020
Responsible modelling in times of uncertainty
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Axel Leijonhufvud's piece on economists, " Life Among the Econ " did a brilliant takedown of what he termed "modls...
30 June 2020
A classic revisited - "Life Among the Econs"
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When mulling over where economics, particularly development economics has been heading, the best reference is Axel Leijonhufvud's 1973 ...
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