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Speaker Series with Abhijit Banerjee

A conversation on "Good Economics for Hard Times"

The Series features talks by distinguished scholars and policymakers with the goal of fostering discussions about successes and challenges in the field of poverty alleviation.

Event Details:

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm PST

This event is open to:

Alumni/Friends
Faculty/Staff
General Public
Students

On December 3, the Stanford King Center on Global Development held a Speaker Series with Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as he discussed his perception of the economics profession and other insights from his new book, Good Economics for Hard TimesThe discussion was moderated by Saumitra Jha.

Here are our highlights of the event.

 

About the speaker:

Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-recipient of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Esther Duflo (MIT) and Michael Kremer (Harvard), "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."

In 2003, Banerjee co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), where he remains one of the organization's directors.

Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and a winner of the Infosys prize.

He is the author of a large number of articles and four books, including Poor Economics, which won the Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.

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