Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 63

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. The international academic conference circuit—for an amusing account of such circuits, one may read the British writer David Lodge’s novel Small World, which is second in his trilogy of campus novels, the first of which Changing Places is largely on Berkeley…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 62

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. In connection with our research and meetings in the MacArthur network we did a considerable amount of international travel. Let me now turn to a whole series of my travel-related stories, some in connection with this network but mostly outside it…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 61

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. In the middle 1990’s my friend from the September Group, Sam Bowles, and I were invited by the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation to form an inter-disciplinary and international research network to study the effects of Economic Inequality, with the two of us…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 60

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. As with game theory, I also attended some courses in Berkeley in another relatively new subject for me, Psychology and Economics (later called Behavioral Economics). In particular I liked the course jointly taught by George Akerlof and Daniel Kahneman (then at…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 57

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. In 1998 when Amartya Sen got the Nobel Prize it was a big event for us development economists. Even though the Prize was announced primarily for his contributions to social choice theory (in particular, his exploration of the conditions that permit…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 53

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. In the early 1990’s I was a visiting fellow at St Catherine’s College and an academic visitor at Nuffield College in Oxford. At Nuffield College at that time two friends from my Cambridge student days were Fellows, Jim Mirrlees and Christopher…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 52

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. After my student days in Cambridge, in my professional life I have been to Britain many times, occasionally for lectures and conferences, but sometimes more formally on visiting assignments. The latter, except for the two terms at Trinity College, Cambridge, as…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 49

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. In the early 1980’s apart from joining the September group, there were two other outside organizations I was invited to join which expanded my intellectual horizons. The first was the South Asia Committee of the Social Science Research Council in New…

Charaiveti: Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond, Part 48

by Pranab Bardhan All of the articles in this series can be found here. In the 1990’s Andrei Shleifer was only one among many in the proselytizing army of reformers who went out to the transition economies, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe but also in developing countries, to make them ready for capitalism. They…