![Indian born Abhijit Banerjee, laureate of Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019, speaks during a press conference with the Nobel physics, chemistry and economics laureates at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 7, 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden. / AFP / Jonathan NACKSTRAND](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/GNYPIWHDR5N2UWPEGIJBBFQXXI.jpg?smart=true&auth=11c5232eab06f835842d781b9173e34218cb95e55e0b947cdca5ad6d87eae7aa&width=400&height=225)
Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019. AFP.
Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019. AFP.
'I'm a disastrous money manager': why Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee is the economics professor you wish you had
Banerjee and Esther Duflo – long-time collaborators and, since 2015, also husband and wife – have been familiar names to readers for a decade now
Chandrahas Choudhury
28 January, 2020