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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Chandra Professor His Bliss Follows manyam Balasubra Rajeev Afsh by Arash ar, Por t of S an D iego Photo n the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra saw not his life flash before him but his ideology. First came his years at Hyderabad, his BA in fiction Economics when he was a Marxist like everyone else; his PhD at Cambridge, when he realised India would have to liberalise if terminal underachievement were to be avoided; his first job at the LSE, where he became fond of saying that communism was simply the most arduous route to capitalism; his decade at Chicago, where Milton Friedman helped him change his tyre in the snow, and his return to Cambridge a full professor and a fully fledged neoliberal. And then the crash of 2008, the instant vilification of his tribe, the doubts, the pies in the face, the quite unintended intellectual reboot which meant that now, as he lay on his stomach staring at the tarmac, all he knew was that he was an economist, which was surely an ideology in itself. "Professor?" exclaimed a narrowly postpubescent voice. "Have you been in an accident?" "Of course I've been in a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

Balasubramanyam, Rajeev
The Missouri Review , Volume 40 (1) – Apr 23, 2017
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Chandra Professor His Bliss Follows manyam Balasubra Rajeev Afsh by Arash ar, Por t of S an D iego Photo n the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra saw not his life flash before him but his ideology. First came his years at Hyderabad, his BA in fiction Economics when he was a Marxist like everyone else; his PhD at Cambridge, when he realised India would have to liberalise if terminal underachievement were to be avoided; his first job at the LSE, where he became fond of saying that communism was simply the most arduous route to capitalism; his decade at Chicago, where Milton Friedman helped him change his tyre in the snow, and his return to Cambridge a full professor and a fully fledged neoliberal. And then the crash of 2008, the instant vilification of his tribe, the doubts, the pies in the face, the quite unintended intellectual reboot which meant that now, as he lay on his stomach staring at the tarmac, all he knew was that he was an economist, which was surely an ideology in itself. "Professor?" exclaimed a narrowly postpubescent voice. "Have you been in an accident?" "Of course I've been in a

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Published: Apr 23, 2017

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