The argumentative economists

Indians, a well-known economist once claimed, are argumentative people. Economists, by and large, are also a species that loves a good wrangle. Indian economists are thus, by descent and disposition, the most combative of human beings. As proof, for such an assertion requires proof, I present India’s Tryst with Destiny, the new book by the prolific pair of Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, which puts the word “debunking” in its subtitle and doesn’t look back thereafter.

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