Morning hour, duplex from his living room, on the campus of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), near Boston.
Esther Duflo has acquired American nationality, but thanks to her notoriety she finds her way back to her native country.
Last fall, she delivered her inaugural lesson at the College de France, where she is now a professor, a lesson, published these days.
Where is development economics?
The first generation was embodied by Amartya Sen (Nobel in 1998).
His work had bridged the gap between English liberalism and the decolonizing socialism of the 1960s.
Thanks to him, Marxism emerged from the debate which dominated at the time on these questions of underdevelopment.
Sen demonstrated the importance of democratic institutions, which alone are capable of ensuring a reliable circulation of information (on prices, on shortages) but also more motivated to invest in long-term public goods such as roads and 'education.
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