Early in his career, economist Abhijit Banerjee didn’t see himself writing books for broad, non-expert audiences. Now, on the heels of receiving the Nobel Prize and releasing his latest book Good ...

Last week I had the good fortune to sit down for lunch with MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee — one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences — just hours before he was ...

More than 700 million people across the globe live on extremely low wages. This year, a trio of economists won the Nobel Prize for their work on addressing global poverty, using randomized control ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian politicians and academics cheered the Nobel economics prize awarded on Monday to Indian-born American Abhijit Banerjee, whose proud mother told visitors crowding into her ...

Indian American economist Abhijit Banerjee, who shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, released a cookbook Nov. 15 entitled, “Cooking ...

Stockholm — The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for pioneering new ways to alleviate global poverty. Banerjee and Duflo are at the ...

The University of Zurich welcomes Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, two pioneers in the field of development economics. Both economists are currently employed at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Professor Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ...

LOMA LINDA, CA – The music community is rallying behind renowned tabla maestro Abhijit Banerjee following his recent diagnosis of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. The celebrated ...

Economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are both winners of the Nobel economics prize. They're also married ...to each other! We talked with them recently, and asked them if they'd be willing to ...