Basavaraj: Starting Some Post From Scratch

2026-04-12T22:38:46Z

Starting Some Post From Scratch

New page

{{Short description|Indian economist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri
|image =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1934|01|04}}
| birth_place = Srigauri, [[Cachar]], [[Assam]], British India
|alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata]]<br>[[MIT]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|05|19|1934|01|04}}
| death_place = [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| othername = MDC
| occupation = Theoretical economist<br>Writer<br>Academic
| yearsactive = 1966–2008
| known for = Academics in Economics<br>Writings
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]
}}
'''Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri''' (1934–2015), popularly known as '''MDC''',<ref name="Remembering Mrinal-da">{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/specials-career-remembering-mrinal-datta-chaudhuri-/20150522.htm | title=Remembering Mrinal-da | publisher=ReDiff | date=22 May 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> was an Indian theoretical economist, academic and a professor of the [[Delhi School of Economics]].<ref name="Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passes away at 81">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/economist-mrinal-datta-chaudhuri-passes-away-at-81/article7227413.ece | title=Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passes away at 81 | newspaper=The Hindu | date=20 May 2015 | access-date=3 June 2016| last1=Banerjee | first1=Shoumojit }}</ref> He was a member of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], Princeton.<ref name="IAS member">{{cite web | url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/mrinal-k-datta-chaudhuri | title=IAS member | publisher=Institute for Advanced Study | date=2016 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 2005, for his contributions to literature and education.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri was born on 4 January 1935 at Srigauri, a small village in [[Cachar, Assam]], in East Bengal of the [[British India]].<ref name="Life Sketch">{{cite web | url=http://econdse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Prof.M.D.-Chaudhuri-Memorial-Meeting.pdf | title=Life Sketch | publisher=Delhi School of Economics | date=2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> He did his college education at [[Shantiniketan]] where he studied with [[Amartya Sen]], who later won the [[Nobel Prize]] for economics, and [[Sukhamoy Chakraborty]].<ref name="Teacher of economics, and more">{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/teacher-of-economics-and-more-mrinal-datta-chaudhuri-had-the-gift-of-inspiring-students-to-reach-beyond-the-mundane-syllabus/ | title=Teacher of economics, and more | publisher=Indian Express | date=20 July 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> He completed his post graduate education at [[Presidency College, Calcutta]].<ref name="Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passes away at 81" /> Receiving a full-paid scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], he studied under the guidance of [[Paul Samuelson]], the first American Nobel Laureate in Economics who was later described by the [[New York Times]] as the ''foremost academic economist of the 20th century''.<ref name="Paul A. Samuelson, Economist, Dies at 94">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/economy/14samuelson.html | title=Paul A. Samuelson, Economist, Dies at 94 | work=New York Times | date=13 December 2009 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> The stint at MIT also gave him opportunity to study under Nobel Prize winners such as [[Robert Solow]], [[Franco Modigliani]] and [[Kenneth Arrow]] and mingle with [[Joseph Stiglitz]] and [[George Akerlof]], who would also go on to win Nobel Prize later.<ref name="Remembering MDC, Economist, Teacher and Institution Builder">{{cite web | url=http://thewire.in/2015/05/29/remembering-mdc-economist-teacher-and-institution-builder-2728/ | title=Remembering MDC, Economist, Teacher and Institution Builder | publisher=The Wire | date=29 May 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref>

Datta-Chaudhuri secured his PhD in economics in 1966 and returned to India the same year to start his career at the [[Indian Statistical Institute]]<ref name="A legend passes away">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150601/jsp/opinion/story_23149.jsp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601101048/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150601/jsp/opinion/story_23149.jsp | url-status=dead | archive-date=1 June 2015 | title=A legend passes away | publisher=The Telegraph | date=1 June 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> to work for the next two years there as well as at [[Jadavpur University]]. He moved to [[Delhi School of Economics]] in 1968, reportedly on invitation from [[K. N. Raj]],<ref name="Remembering MDC, Economist, Teacher and Institution Builder" /> the author of the introductory chapter of the first [[Five-Year Plans of India|Five Year Plan of India]],<ref name="A man behind the Plan">{{cite web | url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2122/stories/20041105006512900.htm | title=A man behind the Plan | publisher=Frontline | date=October 2004 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> as a professor of Economics and worked there until his superannuation in 1999.<ref name="Life Sketch" /> During this period, he served as the Head of the Department of Economics from 1974 to 1977 and as the director of the institution from 1986 to 1991. He also served as a visiting professor at [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[University of Minnesota]] and [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Life Sketch" />

Datta-Chaudhuri, a member of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], Princeton,<ref name="IAS member" /> was credited with several articles<ref name="Jomo2013">{{cite book|author=K. S. Jomo|title=Industrializing Malaysia: Policy, Performance, Prospects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYcIAA9yZrgC&pg=PA144|date=13 May 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-86391-4|pages=144–}}</ref><ref name="BradfordBranson2007">{{cite book|author1=Colin I. Bradford|author2=William H. Branson|title=Trade and Structural Change in Pacific Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_1byWGCTTYC&pg=PA465|date=1 December 2007|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-07030-8|pages=465–}}</ref><ref name="Mehmet2013">{{cite book|author=Ozay Mehmet|title=Development in Malaysia (Routledge Revivals): Poverty, Wealth and Trusteeship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsJmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-83180-8|pages=96–}}</ref><ref name="Page1990">{{cite book|author=Sheila Page|title=Trade, Finance and Developing Countries: Strategies and Constraints in the 1990s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8b3JxDmV3TUC&pg=PA426|year=1990|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-389-20890-7|pages=426–}}</ref> which included ''Market Failures and Government Failures'' published in the [[Journal of Economic Perspectives]] (1990)<ref name="Market imperfections, government imperfections, and policy mixes: policy innovations in Singapore">{{cite journal | title=Market imperfections, government imperfections, and policy mixes: policy innovations in Singapore | author=Xun Wu, M. Ramesh | journal=Policy Sciences | date=September 2014 | volume=47 | issue=3 | pages=305–320 | doi=10.1007/s11077-013-9186-x| s2cid=154867460 }}</ref> and contributions to texts such as the 75-page chapter on ''Interindustry Planning Models for a Multiregional Economy'' in the book ''Economy-wide models and development planning''.<ref name="BlitzerClark1982">{{cite book|author1=Charles R. Blitzer|author2=Peter B. Clark|author3=Lance Taylor|title=Economy-wide models and development planning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxD-fpr52FMC|year=1982|publisher=Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-920074-0}}</ref> He co-wrote one book, ''Regional Development Experiences and Prospects in South and Southeast Asia''<ref name="Regional Development Experiences and Prospects in South and Southeast Asia">{{cite book | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17107183-regional-development-experiences-and-prospects-in-south-and-southeast-as | title=Regional Development Experiences and Prospects in South and Southeast Asia | publisher=Walter de Gruyter | author=Louis Lefeber, Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri | year=1971 | pages=278 | isbn=9783111215716}}</ref> with Louis Lefeber and edited another, ''Development and Change: Essays in Honour of K. N. Raj''.<ref name="Development and Change: Essays in Honour of K. N. Raj">{{cite book | title=Development and Change: Essays in Honour of K. N. Raj | publisher=Oxford University Press India | author=Pranab Bardhan, Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri (Editors) | year=2001 | pages=372 | isbn=978-0195655452}}</ref> He had close association with [[Manmohan Singh]] and when the latter became the Finance Minister of India in 1991 during the [[1991 Indian economic crisis|economic crisis]], Datta-Chaudhuri assisted him in the formulation of many policy decisions and remained a member of the unofficial think-tank during Singh's tenancy as the Finance Minister and later, as the Prime Minister.<ref name="Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passes away at 81" /> The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name="Padma Awards" />

Towards the later days of his life, he had [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] and moved to [[Pune]] to stay with his brother, Malay Dutta Choudhury.<ref name="R.I.P. Prof Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri">{{cite web | url=http://www.outlookindia.com/blog/story/rip-prof-mrinal-datta-chaudhuri/3544 | title=R.I.P. Prof Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri | publisher=Outlook | date=22 May 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> He died, aged 82, on 19 May 2015 reportedly due to cardiac arrest, at his brother's residence,<ref name="Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passed away">{{cite web | url=http://www.affairscloud.com/economist-mrinal-datta-chaudhuri-passed-away/ | title=Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passed away | publisher=Affairs Cloud | date=21 May 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> survived by two sons from his second marriage, Timir Datta-Chaudhuri and Mihir Datta-Chaudhuri, his first wife had predeceased him.<ref name="Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri">{{cite web | url=http://www.pressreader.com/india/business-standard/20150520/281543699508811/TextView | title=Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri | publisher=Press Reader | date=20 May 2015 | access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/books/story/20020304-book-review-i-g-patel-glimpses-of-indian-economic-policy-796527-2002-03-03 | title=An eye for economy | publisher=India Today | work=Book Review — Glimpses of Indian Economic Policy By I.G. Patel | date=4 March 2002 | access-date=4 June 2016 | author=Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri}}
* {{cite journal | title=Market Failure and Government Failure | author=Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri | journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives | year=1990 | volume=4 | issue=3 | pages=25–39 | doi=10.1257/jep.4.3.25 |doi-access=free| s2cid=153956240 }}
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.epw.in/journal/1966/9/special-articles/new-export-subsidy-scheme-note.html | title=The New Export Subsidy Scheme-A Note | author=Mrinal Datta -Chaudhuri | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=October 1966 | volume=1 | issue=9}}

== External links ==
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.epw.in/author/mrinal-datta-chaudhuri-0 | title=Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=2016 | pages=7–8 | access-date=4 June 2016}}

{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 2000–09}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaudhuri, Mrinal Datta}}
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education]]
[[Category:1934 births]]
[[Category:2015 deaths]]
[[Category:Scientists from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Bengali scientists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian economists]]
[[Category:Scientists from Assam]]
[[Category:People associated with Santiniketan]]
[[Category:MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Jadavpur University]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the Indian Statistical Institute]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Delhi University]]
[[Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty]]
[[Category:Harvard University faculty]]
[[Category:People from Cachar district]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]

Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri - Revision history

Basavaraj: Starting Some Post From Scratch