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Charaiveti: An academic's journey-13

If there was any economist who deserved more than one Nobel Prize it was Kenneth Arrow, whom I have always regarded as the greatest economist of the 20th century

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Inspired by Solow’s lectures in some of my dissertation chapters I used the idea that low productivity in poor countries might be due to old machines being scrapped later

Pranab Bardhan
Shortly after my arrival at Cambridge I struck up a warm friendship with a very bright young faculty member, Jim Mirrlees (who was to get the Nobel Prize later), recently returned from a stint of research in India. (Although he was a high-powered theoretical economist, he had what seemed to me an almost religious/moral fervour for doing something to help poor countries). Even more than Frank Hahn, he got involved in the theoretical analysis in my dissertation, and helped me in making some of the proofs of my propositions simpler and less inelegant.

One time I had found an error in
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