Interview: Ashwini Deshpande on the Need for Indian Economists to Grapple with Discrimination
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Interview: Ashwini Deshpande on the Need for Indian Economists to Grapple with Discrimination

The noted economist speaks of how the idea of examining discrimination through economics has changed over the past two decades in India, why much more needs to be done to examine the biases of the field, and her discomfort with the pervasive myth of “merit” in India.