Breaking through : a memoir / Isher Judge Ahluwalia.
By: Ahluwalia, Isher Judge.
Publisher: New Delhi : Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd., 2020Description: x, 173p.ISBN: 9789390260287.Subject(s): Women economists -- Biography | Women social scientistsDDC classification: 330.092 Summary: This is the life story of Isher Judge Ahluwalia, one of the leading Indian policy economists of her generation. Born into a family with eleven children and limited means, where she was one of the first to attend university, she takes us through her journey to Presidency College, Delhi School of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.She chronicles her career as a young policy economist fighting against the Indian economic orthodoxy that underpinned the license-permit-quota Raj, as an institution builder leading the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), one of India's leading economic think tanks for over a decade, and also her most recent role in focusing attention on the challenges of urbanization in India.Narrated with candor and from the heart, this is also a story of a woman balancing career and family, and trying to stay close to her roots as her life path takes her through the power corridors of New Delhi, both through her own career, and through a 50-year-marriage to Montek Singh Ahluwalia. An outsider to Delhi, who ultimately became the consummate insider, Breaking Through is an account of a remarkable life that was witness to remarkable times.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 330.09033 COL-; Economies and its enemies : two centuries of anti-economics | 330.0904 NEW- New frontiers in economics | 330.0904 PLU- Pluralistic economics and its history | 330.092 AHL-B Breaking through : | 330.092 BAC-F Founder of modern economics | 330.092 BAS-E Economist's miscellany | 330.092 GHO-; Beyond Gandhian economics: towards a creative deconstruction |
This is the life story of Isher Judge Ahluwalia, one of the leading Indian policy economists of her generation. Born into a family with eleven children and limited means, where she was one of the first to attend university, she takes us through her journey to Presidency College, Delhi School of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.She chronicles her career as a young policy economist fighting against the Indian economic orthodoxy that underpinned the license-permit-quota Raj, as an institution builder leading the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), one of India's leading economic think tanks for over a decade, and also her most recent role in focusing attention on the challenges of urbanization in India.Narrated with candor and from the heart, this is also a story of a woman balancing career and family, and trying to stay close to her roots as her life path takes her through the power corridors of New Delhi, both through her own career, and through a 50-year-marriage to Montek Singh Ahluwalia. An outsider to Delhi, who ultimately became the consummate insider, Breaking Through is an account of a remarkable life that was witness to remarkable times.
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