Of people, of places: sketches from an economist's notebook

By:

Basu, Kaushik

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi; Oxford University Press; 1994Description: 170 pISBN:

019563473X

Subject(s):

Economists - Sketches

DDC classification:

330.092 BAS

Summary: 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. 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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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.
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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