Afterword

Pranab Bardhan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California (UC), Berkeley. He had been at the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Indian Statistical Institute and Delhi School of Economics before joining Berkeley. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on the political economy of development policies, and on international trade. He is the author of 17 books and editor of 14 other books, and the author of more than 150 journal articles. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science and social anthropology. He was chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985–2003. He was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance for 1996–2007. His latest two books are A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries (Harvard University Press, 2022) and a memoir titled Charaiveti: An Academic’s Global Journey (Harper Collins India, 2023).