July 1, 2022: India’s first diplomat; Random trials; Wishful thinking

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• Vineet Thakur
• Abhijit Banerjee
• habit change
• V.S. Srinivasa Sastri
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The Growth Factor: Why you should invite your competitors to dinner; the inventory dilemma; in MSME financing, do women fare better than men?

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• Abhijit Banerjee
• social ties in business
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• Kaivan Munshi
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Mainstream economic theories do not fit reality. Two new books, ‘Measuring What Counts’ and ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, provide a counterview: Instead of treating people as data, listen to them, and find answers to their real problems for inclusive, sustainable progress

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• Jean-Paul Fitoussi
• Abhijit Banerjee
• Esther Duflo
• Joseph Stiglitz
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• Good Economics for Hard Times
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