Name: Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made
Start: 2026-04-13T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-13T13:30:00-04:00
Location: 121 Bay State Rd

Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made

Join us for a talk with David Engerman.
About this Event

Apostles of Development uses the lives and work of six prominent economists who studied together at Cambridge to interpret the history of international development from the time they began their studies in Cambridge (mid-1950s) until the 2010s. The six include three Indians (renowned trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, and ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh) as well as the creator of the Human Development Index (Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistan), the founder of important UN think tank (Lal Jayawardena, Sri Lanka), and an activist for Bangladeshi independence (Rehman Sobhan).