"The State and Economic Development: The Need for a Critical Reappraisal of the Literature" - Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture 2015
| Dates: | 20 March 2015 |
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| Times: | 11:30 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Pranab Bardhan |
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Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture 2015
Hosted by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre
"The State and Economic Development: The need for a critical reappraisal of the literature"
Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics at
the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Visiting Professor/Fellow at Trinity
College, Cambridge, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and London School of
Economics. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena,
Italy in 2008-9. He was the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics
for 2010 and 2011.He has done theoretical and field studies research in the interdisciplinary
area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. He is the
author of 13 books and editor of 12 other books, and author of more than 150 journal
articles. Among his latest books are Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the
Economic Rise of China and India (Princeton University Press) and Scarcity, Conflicts and
Cooperation: Essays in Political and Institutional Economics of Development (MIT Press).
Speaker
Pranab Bardhan
Role: Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics
Organisation: University of California, Berkeley
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