Pranab Bardhan

Pranab Bardhan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book is A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries.

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What Will It Take to Save Democracy?

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Pranab Bardhan

The Real Source of Right-Wing Populism

It's cultural resentment, not economic malaise.

Pranab Bardhan

Little, Big

Big-time development economists are missing something.

Pranab Bardhan

Who Represents the Poor?

The Limits of the NGO Movement in Global Development

Pranab Bardhan

What Makes a Miracle

Some myths about the rise of China and India.

Pranab Bardhan

Forum Responses

Response: Experimental Fad

I agree with Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer’s basic points that small incentives can generate large changes in behavior among the poor, and that in general the new field of behavioral economics...

Pranab Bardhan

Response: Some Up, Some Down

I appreciate the concern that Fung, O’Rourke, and Sabel express for transparency, broad-based participation, yardstick competition, independent monitoring, and coordinated action in the current proliferation of piece-meal, divergent, and arbitrary standards in...

Pranab Bardhan

Don’t Miss a Thing

Pranab Bardhan

Articles

What Will It Take to Save Democracy?

The Real Source of Right-Wing Populism

Little, Big

Who Represents the Poor?

What Makes a Miracle

Forum Responses

Response: Experimental Fad

Response: Some Up, Some Down

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