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Ep#1 | Bangla Podcast | Anujit Chakraborty | Studying Economics, Behavioral Economics etc.
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In this episode Pratyay talked to Anujit Chakraborty (https://anujit.ucdavis.edu/about-me), Assistant Prof. of Economics at University of California, Davis. The discussion focuses on several topics, broadly categorized into five parts: Part-1: From Engineering to Economics - 00:24 Part-2: Behavioral Economics - 15:14 Part-3: Economic Decline of West Bengal - 30:30 Part-4: Economic Impact of Covid-19 in India - 46:20 Part-5: Public Education in India - 51:12 A few relevant links: Anujit's homepage at UC Davis (https://anujit.ucdavis.edu) Paper on Bengal's economic decline by Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess (http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/rburgess/wp/indreg.pdf) Article criticizing Besley and Berger's work (https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-bogus-paper-that-gutted-workers-rights)
Analyzing ancient DNAs of different populations led to many astonishing discoveries about the past of our species. Unsurprisingly, like other areas, scientific findings through genome analyses collided with conventional wisdoms leading to cultural and political battle. This is especially true for India where a certain political ideology, deeply rooted in conjectured indigenousness, has been gaining strength for the last few decades. While earlier genome studies showed strong evidence (at least partially) refuting such conjecture, a new research on modern genomes of Indian population, and subsequent mapping with ancient genomes bolstered those evidence, in addition to finding new and somewhat surprising connection to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Hosted by: Pratyay Mukherjee and Srinjoy Ganguly Youtube: https://youtu.be/TjfY0K4RMVQ #CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #AcademicResearch #Bangla #bengalilanguage #SrinjoyGanguly #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #IndianGenome #Genetics #OriginOfIndians #PopulationGenectis Elise’s webpage: https://ekerdoncuff.github.io/ Priya Moorjani’s lab at UC Berkeley: https://moorjanilab.org/research/ The Wire Article on the paper: https://thewire.in/science/new-study-sheds-light-on-where-indias-people-came-from The report in Science on the same: https://www.science.org/content/article/where-did-india-s-people-come-massive-genetic-study-reveals-surprises David Reich’s Lab at Harvard: https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/ David Reich’s book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here Tony Joseph’s book on the early Indians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Indians A podcast on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56_2o_ayXmY --------------------- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecoffeehouseexperience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexp RSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/thecoffeehouseexperience/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3P75RSN Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3Z9dsVn