Tag Archives: Abhijit Banerjee

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

Posted on October 16, 2019 by

Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all but one of whom were white … Continue reading →

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Ad verecundiam

Posted on October 14, 2019 by

That Swedish group announced today that Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for economics. Within minutes, my Twitter feed was awash with congratulations as well as links to criticisms Duflo and … Continue reading →

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