History and Economics Seminar

Date: 

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

"Good Economics for Bad Times"

Speakers:

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact: 

Emily Gauthier
gauth@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Sunil Amrith, Director, Center for History and Economics; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Chair, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University.

Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and Economics; Faculty Associate (on leave spring 2019). Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Book signing and reception to follow