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100			_aBasu, Kaushik
245		0	_aOf people, of places: sketches from an economist's notebook
260			_aDelhi
260			_bOxford University Press
260			_c1994
300			_a170 p.
520			_aWhen 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.
650			_aEconomists - Sketches
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