Pranab Bardhan of Berkeley has recently published a memoir called Charaiveti: An

Academic’s Global Journey. It takes in his childhood in India, and his academic

career in the UK, India and the US. The book takes in topics as diverse as whether

the questions Marx asked are still relevant today, what economists can learn from

anthropologists, what the Chinese government got right (and wrong), and the

dangers of offering policy prescriptions for places we have never visited. He talks to

Tim Phillips about the past, and the future, of development economics.



Check out the full show notes on VoxDev: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/past-present-and-future-development-economics