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Charaiveti: An academic's journey-10

'On several occasions in my later years in different parts of the world, people have asked me why among the prominent Indian economists there are so many Bengalis', says the author

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Pranab Bardhan
Presidency College had a good Department of Economics and Political Science. I’d say that the teaching standard at my time there would compare quite favourably with the standard I found later when teaching undergraduate classes in Berkeley. I remember in my first lecture in Berkeley in a large undergraduate class I was using some bit of calculus. After my class a female student came to see me to complain about the use of calculus in class. I told her that I was not using any advanced calculus, so if she brushed up her high school-level calculus she should have no
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