In Praise of Fostering Anarchy in Research and Teaching
In this paper I attempt to make a case for anarchy in research against the current practice of picking winners in universities at advanced levels of education and research. By considering a...
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An appreciation of the work of the American monetary macroeconomist Robert Clower who died in May 2011.read more
View ArticleBourbaki's Destructive Influence on the Mathematisation of Economics
The first appearance of a reference to a Bourbaki mathematical result was the spoof by D D Kosambi, published in the first volume of the "Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the United Provinces of...
View ArticleRemembering Krishna Bharadwaj
On this, the 20th anniversary of the untimely death of Krishna Bharadwaj, this article tries to reconsider some theoretical aspects of her fundamental contributions to capital theory by showing how...
View ArticleHumane Economist
V Pandit’s warm tribute to the life and academic times of Lawrence Klein (EPW, 1 February 2014) is a wholly justified celebration of a distinguished economist’s lifelong contribution and dedication to...
View ArticleIt Is Not Too Late
There is a case for awarding the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Hirofumi Uzawa, Takashi Negishi and Herbert Scarf for their pioneering contributions towards making it formally possible to...
View ArticleRichard Goodwin
From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, the well-known economist Richard Goodwin worked on India and began a lifelong association with the country. A description and discussion.read more
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