Tag: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

Kolkata: In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen – the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni – on its wall. Vice Chancellor Anuradha Lohia said the university has also decided to immediately send a felicitation scroll […]

Kolkata: Nobel laureate and economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee has suggested re-introduction of the wealth tax, and said the government should give priority to re-financing the banking sector and improve infrastructure, while lauding the NDA regime’s commitment to a host of welfare measures. “Given the amount of inequality we now have, a wealth tax is completely […]