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Benjamin H. Mitra-Kahn
benjamin@mitrakahn.com


D301 Social Science Building
City University
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London
EC1V 0HB
Great Britain
 

 

 

The Editor
New School Economic Review
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New York,
NY 10011
U.S.A
 
     

I am currently in the last year of my Ph.D. in economics at City University, London, where I have been awarded the University Scholarship to do my thesis. My work is on the history and notions of what economic growth is, and how it has changed through time, and includes elements of history of thought, national accounting and macro theory. It seems that the further anyone gets into a Ph.D. the longer it takes to explain what you are doing, so instead I have included a copy of my proposal in the 'papers' section.

I have recently returned to London from Delhi, where I was undertaking fieldwork, and prior to this I was in New York, attending the Economics Ph.D. program at the New School for Social Research. I remain an active part of that department, particularly with respect to our economics journal the New School Economic Review where I serve as chief editor. I have a M.Sc. in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics from Royal Holloway University of London.
     

Research Interests:

    
Development Economics, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics, National Accounting, Philosophy of Economics, and the History of Economic Thought.

Regional interest: Europe, India, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
     
Current Activities    
I am currently putting together the data from my fieldwork in New Delhi for my thesis, looking at the national accounting structures of the Indian statistical offices, and doing a comparative analysis with other nations practices. I am also editing a my first couple of thesis chapters to be prepared for submitting in Summer 2009.

During the summer I presented a paper on gender wage inequalities in semi-industrial countries, co-authored with Trishima Mitra-Kahn, at the United Nations Inequality, Development and Growth Workshop hosted by Feminist Economics in May. I also gave two papers at the History of Economics Society's Annual Conference, one of which was given a Young Scholar Award, on CGE models, and a second on National Accounting and the idea of economic growth in the early 18th century. These are all available in the paper section.

If there is anything you want to discuss or talk about, please do get in touch via e-mail.

-Benjamin H. Mitra-Kahn, London, 1 August 2008.