{"id":7215,"date":"2012-09-05T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2012-09-06T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T12:23:02","slug":"kaushik-basu-is-the-new-chief-economist-of-the-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7215","title":{"rendered":"Kaushik Basu Is the New Chief Economist of the World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard a very credible rumor about this a few weeks ago, but\u00a0<a title=\"World Bank Appoints Kaushik Basu Chief Economist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/2012\/09\/05\/world-bank-appoints-kaushik-basu-chief-economist\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is the official announcement on the World Bank&#8217;s website. If you don&#8217;t know who he is,\u00a0<a title=\"Kaushik Basu\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaushik_Basu\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is the Wiki entry for Kaushik Basu, and <a title=\"Kaushik Basu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.cornell.edu\/econ\/kb40\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is his Cornell webpage.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to take Kaushik&#8217;s graduate level development class in the early years of my Ph.D. As you might expect, the course was mostly about theory, and we used Kaushik&#8217;s <a title=\"Analytical Development Economics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Analytical-Development-Economics-Developed-Revisited\/dp\/0262523442\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346863270&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=analytical+development+economics\" target=\"_blank\">Analytical Development Economics<\/a> as our textbook. I also really liked his <a title=\"Prelude to Political Economy 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prelude-Political-Economy-Foundations-Economics\/dp\/0199261857\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346863677&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=kaushik+basu\" target=\"_blank\">2003 book on political economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kaushik is one of the most interesting lecturers I have had a chance to learn from in the ten years I spent as a student at various universities doing my B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees. He is also one of my favorite writers in economics because of his clear, congenial style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard a very credible rumor about this a few weeks ago, but\u00a0here is the official announcement on the World Bank&#8217;s website. If you&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7215\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kaushik Basu Is the New Chief Economist of the World Bank<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-economics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1Sn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7220,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}