CID presents: a book talk with Author Pranab Bardhan & Prof. Dani Rodrik

​​​CID is thrilled to host Pranab Bardhan​, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Bardhan will discuss his most recent book, A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries​, with Professor Dani Rodrik​ who will moderate the discussion. 

About the book: A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries is “an ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism’s failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out.”

About Pranab Bardhan: Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the 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. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena, Italy in 2008-9. He was the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics for 2010 and 2011.He is the author of 17 books and more than 150 journal articles, and the editor of 14 other books. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. His current research involves theoretical and empirical work on decentralized governance, and the political economy of development.

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