Of people, of places: sketches from an economist's notebook (Record no. 48050)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 019563473X
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Classification number 330.092 BAS
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Personal name Basu, Kaushik
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Title Of people, of places: sketches from an economist's notebook
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1994
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Extent 170 p.
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Summary, etc. When you tell academics that you are planning to write a book of light essays, they ask you 'Why? packing in as much moral disapproval as they can into a three-letter question. The presumption is that researchers- be they physicists, biologists or economists-ought to ensure that their work is directed towards helping mankind or India's progress. My only defence against this question is that even when I do research as a professional economist, its utility-leaving aside its immediate hedonism is not evident to me. So, at least in my case, when time is taken off abstract research to write a book like this one, there need be no fear of socially useful man-hours having been lost.<br/>All the essays here are on life in and around academia. They were written over several years, including some written recently and expressly for this book.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economists - Sketches
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-04   330.092 BAS 58338 2020-02-04 2020-02-04 Books

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