Pranab Bardhan

'One Nation, One Everything' attitude bound to raise federal tensions

The ruling party has absolute majority and firm faith in over-centralisation, writes Pranab Bardhan

Working class politics: A global puzzle

The right wing's appeal to the working poor has to do with the fact that economic insecurity has often been intertwined with cultural insecurity, which the right is in a better position to exploit

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-18

George Akerlof is one of the most imaginative and creative economists around, his Woody Allenesque anxiety-prone and easily-frazzled manners hide his powerful mind

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-17

Unlike many economists of his and certainly later generations particularly in the US, Samuelson was deeply interested in the history of economic thought

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-16

Both Joe Stiglitz and I worked until quite late at night in our offices which were close together

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-15

'I was attracted by what is now known as the 'Needham Question': why has the West overtaken China (and also India) in science and technology?'

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-9

Every time I have contributed to EW and its successor EPW, I have felt like paying a small part of my debt to Sachin Chaudhuri

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-7

College Street was athrob with energetic leftist movements, the most important of which were the protracted agitations in the demand for adequate food at affordable prices for the poor

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-6

'The experience of debating in college helped me in many ways', said the author

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-5

In the neighbourhood many young men start body-building (in gyms, called akhras, or outside). Soon these musclemen go for the job entry tests for the lower ranks of police

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-3

'In general, in popular culture all around me canniness was implicitly or explicitly highly valued', says the author

Charaiveti: An Academic's Journey-1

My young days in Santiniketan were immersed in Tagore's music, poetry and drama

Why the poor are leaning right

How support for left and right-leaning parties is changing in social composition

Prospects of social democracy in a post-pandemic world

This should be seen as neither a straight prediction nor just wishful thinking, more a clear-eyed analysis of constraints and opportunities that social democrats may face or have to be prepared for

Decentralise relief policy

Regional diversity in policy measures to deal with the coronavirus challenge and its economic fallout is essential for India

Her voice amid lurking danger: Reflections on some feminist crime novels

It goes without saying that not all of the female crime novelists come out as feminists, and that some male writers can do feminist crime novels quite well.

Development economics after the Nobel Prize

In a world of crushing inequality and aggregate demand stagnation, the new laureates bring some cheer in showing us that incremental changes pursued steadfastly can add up to a lot

Why civic nationalism must trump rabid ethnic nationalism

The author concludes that it is necessary to build healthy alternatives to the kinds of rabid ethnic nationalism that we see all around

Nationalism: When an inclusive version is supplanted by a narrow definition

In the first of a two-part series, the author talks about the form of nationalism that is being attempted to be dismantled by the Hindu nationalists

In memory of Marty Weitzman, a man intolerant of humbug and pomposity

Marty Weitzman was undoubtedly one of the greatest environmental economists in the world today