{"id":1668,"date":"2011-04-07T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T11:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2011-08-29T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:00:49","slug":"esther-duflo-first-development-economist-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1668","title":{"rendered":"Esther Duflo, First Development Economist Ever? (Updated) (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an article<\/a> on Esther Duflo by The Guardian<\/em>‘s<\/del> IPS News republished by The Guardian<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Doing her PhD at MIT, she was one of the first doctoral students to apply economics to development, linking the two, at a time when there were few university faculties devoted to the subject.”<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to add to the considerable amount of snark (see here<\/a>, for example) but… Really? In the first development economics class I ever took, back in the late 1990s, I was taught that the first article on development economics was Paul Rosenstein-Rodan’s “Problems of Industrialization of Eastern and Southeastern Europe<\/a>,” which was published in the Economic Journal<\/em> in 1943.<\/p>\n

Could this mean that Esther Duflo was one of the first doctoral students to apply economics to development at MIT?<\/p>\n

Even that is unlikely: the first development economics class I ever took was taught by Jean-Louis Arcand<\/a>, who received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1991.<\/p>\n

(Update: A community coordinator at The Guardian<\/em> Global Development<\/a> emailed me to draw my attention to the fact that this was originally a story<\/a> by IPS News, which The Guardian<\/em> republished.)<\/p>\n

(Update: The author of the story comments on how the original story was quickly corrected on the website.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an article on Esther Duflo by The Guardian‘s IPS News republished by The Guardian: “Doing her PhD at MIT, she was one of the…<\/p>\n

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