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Do-it-yourself and nirvana economics

Revisiting the academic contributions of P D Henderson and H Demsetz

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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Deepak Lal

6 min read Last Updated : Apr 24 2019 | 1:45 AM IST

In the last few months, two old friends and economist colleagues whose work deserves to be better known in India died.

The first, P D (David) Henderson died at the end of September aged 91. In a varied career, he was an Oxford don, economic advisor to the UK Treasury and chief economist at the UK aviation ministry before becoming director of the World Bank’s Economics Department in 1971. That was when I first met him when he was visiting Nuffield College Oxford, where I was a research fellow completing a book on a cost-benefit study of small-scale irrigation in

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