Ep#1 | Bangla Podcast | Anujit Chakraborty | Studying Economics, Behavioral Economics etc.
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Show Notes
In this episode Pratyay talked to Anujit Chakraborty (https://anujit.ucdavis.edu/about-me), Assistant Prof. of Economics at University of California, Davis. The discussion focuses on several topics, broadly categorized into five parts:
Part-1: From Engineering to Economics - 00:24
Part-2: Behavioral Economics - 15:14
Part-3: Economic Decline of West Bengal - 30:30
Part-4: Economic Impact of Covid-19 in India - 46:20
Part-5: Public Education in India - 51:12
A few relevant links:
Anujit's homepage at UC Davis (https://anujit.ucdavis.edu)
Paper on Bengal's economic decline by Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess (http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/rburgess/wp/indreg.pdf)
Article criticizing Besley and Berger's work (https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-bogus-paper-that-gutted-workers-rights)