This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists

Re:This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among econ... by inception44 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:00PM (#21602065)

Abhijit Banerjee was her doctoral advisor. He tutored her not the other way around. If you get any chance to read their famous book Poor Economics, you will find almost 70% RCTs were conducted in India. Classical Indian bias.

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Re:This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among econ... by whatshisface on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:05PM (#21602091)

What is it with India and economics? I have personally known many Indian economists, I see a lot of books written in Hindi about finance and other economic topics, and apparently many studies are conducted in India. There is something going on here, maybe a trend that will be remarked on a century from now.

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Re:This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among econ... by bildung on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:53AM (#21603966)

India is quite a bunch of people :) If the academic output per capita is the same worldwide, then India alone would contribute 17% of the worldwide output of financial/economic publications.

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Re:This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among econ... by bakuninsbart on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:26AM (#21604643)

I guess there is a bias that keeps perpetuating itself. I've made the same experience with Italians. On the other hand, here in Germany economics seem to be quite niche (and terrible), while our CS, Math and Engineering research is world-class.

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Re:This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among econ... by newyankee on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:19AM (#21603267)

do you mean anti-Indian or pro-Indian ?

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