
Amartya Lahiri on Fostering Economic Growth
Ideas of India
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My First Choice of Careers Was Cricket
My father was a college professor for a while, for a couple of years. He quit his academic life about two years after he started. My mother, she was a historian, andi shell, leave it. Then it was try major, but then switch to languages. But my choice of economics was a bit more practical. It had nothing to do with great love for the subject o ainthing,. partly because i had barely spent much time studying. I was actualy very active cricketer growing up. S i was playing for my state at everyat the age limits. I played up to the delian 22 level. That was my first chool actually playt as a professional
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