Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ( beng. অভিজিৎ বিনায়ক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ; born February 21, 1961 in Mumbai , India ) is an American economist of Indian origin. For 2019 he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics together with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer .
Career, research and teaching
Banerjee studied at the University of Calcutta , which he left in 1981 as a Bachelor of Science in the direction of Jawaharlal Nehru University . He graduated with a Master of Arts in New Delhi in 1983 . He then went on to do a Ph.D. - Studied in the United States at Harvard University , from which he graduated in 1988.
As an assistant professor , Banerjee moved to Princeton University immediately after completing his training . Briefly returned to Harvard as a visiting professor in the fall of 1991, he made a complete change in the following year. After another year as an assistant professor at Harvard, he moved to MIT , where he accepted a position as an associate professor . In 1996 he was appointed full professor there. In 2003 he took over the Ford Foundation International Chair for Economics at MIT . In the same year he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan , which he leads as director.
The focus of Banerjee's work lies in the field of development economics , in which he has written more than 100 scientific articles. Among other things , he excelled himself with analyzes of institutions in developing countries , microcredit, information theory, development aid and social support, in particular the circumstances under which social projects work. He is an advocate of field experiments to analyze economic relationships.
Since 2015 Banerjee has been married to Esther Duflo, who is also a professor of economics. The two have two children.
Awards and honors
- 1994: Sloan Research Fellow
- 2004: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009: Infosys Prize in Social Sciences and Economics
- 2014: Albert O. Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council
- 2014: Bernhard Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- 2019: Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics
- 2020: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Books
The following is a list of books published by Banerjee, and he has written numerous magazine articles and working papers.
- with Philippe Aghion : Volatility and Growth. 2005.
- with Roland Benabou and Dilip Mookherjee (eds.): Understanding Poverty. 2006.
- Making Aid Work. 2007.
- with Esther Duflo : Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, PublicAffairs, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61039-093-4 .
- with Esther Duflo: Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, Public Affairs, 2019. ISBN 0-241-30689-2 .
- German edition: Good economy for tough times. Six survival questions and how we can solve them better , Penguin Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-328-60114-2 .
literature
- Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition. Elgar, Cheltenham et al. 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 48-49.
Web links
- Abhijit Banerjee in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
- Abhijit Banerjee at MIT
- Interview of the time with Banerjee and Duflo
- Literature by and about Abhijit Banerjee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Detailed interview (with German translation) in the SRF show Sternstunde Philosophie, 2017: Conquering poverty with methods (together with Esther Duflo )
Individual evidence
- ^ Banerjee website at MIT: Banerjee Research Papers. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: The Nobel couple fighting poverty. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
- ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Infosys Science Foundation: Laureates 2009: Prof. Abhijit Banerjee. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ^ Social Science Research Council: The Albert O. Hirschman Prize, 2014. Accessed April 30, 2014.
- ^ Bernhard Harms Prize: Recipients. In: ifw-kiel.de. ifw-kiel.de , accessed on October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Full-grown problems. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Banerjee, Abhijit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bombay , India |