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Perspectives on Development: Memoirs of a Development Economist
V. V. Bhatt
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Description for Perspectives on Development: Memoirs of a Development Economist
Hardcover. Tells how economics as a rigorous social discipline evolved in India. This book describes how the research department of the Reserve Bank of India created a niche for itself in economic research, even overtaking the leading and older central banks in the US and the European continent. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BM; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 15. .
This is an unusual book of memoirs of both a distinguished economist and a successful public servant. An alumnus of Harvard, V.V. Bhatt imbibed his apparatus of thought from his great teachers at Harvard like professors, J. Schumpeter, W. Leontief, A. Hansan and A. Gerschenkron, which he harnessed with great success for his creativity in economics. His memoirs are a unique narrative of how economics as a rigorous social discipline evolved in India, superseding most of the arid descriptive economics of his predecessors in pre-war India. He meticulously but without being self-referential describes how the research department of the Reserve ... Read more
This is an unusual book of memoirs of both a distinguished economist and a successful public servant. An alumnus of Harvard, V.V. Bhatt imbibed his apparatus of thought from his great teachers at Harvard like professors, J. Schumpeter, W. Leontief, A. Hansan and A. Gerschenkron, which he harnessed with great success for his creativity in economics. His memoirs are a unique narrative of how economics as a rigorous social discipline evolved in India, superseding most of the arid descriptive economics of his predecessors in pre-war India. He meticulously but without being self-referential describes how the research department of the Reserve ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Academic Foundation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
135
Place of Publication
Ghaziabad, India
ISBN
9788171886838
SKU
V9788171886838
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Reviews for Perspectives on Development: Memoirs of a Development Economist
"Dr. Bhatt is a star in the group of eminent development economists, nearly all of them associated with the School of Economics in Bombay and with the Reserve Bank of India, who dominated the Indian scene in the years following Independence. They left a large imprint on Indian planning in their own generation; and they influenced those of us who ... Read more