Lecture notes on Development Economics by Debraj Ray, Dilip Mookherjee, Andrew Newman, Ethan Ligon and myself...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
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Maitreesh Ghatak
@maitreesh
LSE Economics Professor. Essayist. Views personal. Debate & discussion welcome. Trolls muted, abusers blocked.
- Today is my aunt, the writer and activisit, Mahasweta Devi's birthday. She was my father's eldest sister. Not everyway you wake up seeing a family member's sketch on Google doodle! google.com/doodles/mahasw…
- Most favourite Economics Nobel prize ever!!! Abhijit is a teacher/co-supervisor/co-author of several papers, Esther is a co-author, and Michael who is visiting LSE currently is a co-author on a new project.
- My paper on arranged marriages via newspaper ads with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Jeanne Lafortune is discussed in this interesting piece:
- Development economists exploring ways to boost intra-disciplinary work : ) with #reetika_khera & @karthik_econ
- Such a great honour to be elected to such a distinguished body of researchers! Made me reflect on how much I learnt from teachers, advisors, peers, friends, colleagues, students, co-authors, professional colleagues met through conferences, seminars & visits @LSEEcon @STICERD_LSEWe are delighted to announce that Professor Maitreesh Ghatak has been elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Congratulations @maitreesh on this well-deserved achievement !👏👏
- At the LSE reception this afternoon with Michael Kremer, who was a senior in Harvard...
- Ashok Kotwal - one of the most unorthodox development economists who left a big mark on the field. As editor of @Ideas4India made it what it is now starting from scratch. The photo is from our last meeting, in June 2019. Have lost a mentor and friend. An irreparable loss.
- Congrats to 4 newly-awarded IEA Fellows, selected from around the world, for creative research on development policy. The IEA Fellows 2021 are Sonia Bhalotra-University of Essex Maitreesh Ghatak-LSE Pinelopi Goldberg-Yale University Vijendra Rao-World Bank iea-world.org/iea-fellow-awa…
#Opinion | "Robert Lucas was a restless, fiercely intellectual scholar who brought rigour and profound insights into any problem he studied" ✍️@maitreesh | #HTPremium hindustantimes.com/opinion/rememb…- Fazle Abed - a truly great man passed away yesterday. Founder of BRAC, the largest NGO is the world, he left a mark in the world that will be hard to match.
- Gave my last lecture today in the Master's course in Growth & Development at LSE after an early morning commute to the city centre in a dark, damp, & cold day. Will miss the enthusiasm & intellectual vibrancy of the students from all parts of world (here's a photo with a subset)
- From famines, to measurement of poverty, to the theory of capability, to inequality, to limits of markets, to welfare.....how we think about markets, the role of the state, and public policy now is unimaginable without Amartya Sen's contributions.Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism: Every major work on material inequality in the 21st century owes a debt to Sen. @maitreesh @LSEInequalities @LSEEcon Read: buff.ly/2G1yY5b
- RIP Robert Solow. He laid the foundations on which growth theory was built. There were Ramsey, Harrod, Domer, Feldman, Mahalanobis before, Cass, Koopmans, Uzawa, Kaldor later, and Romer, Lucas, Barro in the recent era, but Solow’s 1954 article remains as relevant as ever.
