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I am currently in the last year of my Ph.D. in economics at City University, London, where I work on the history and theories of what economic growth is, and how it has changed through time. This includes elements of history of thought, national accounting and macro theory. To undertake this research I was awarded a three year university scholarship. Concurrently I am writing up my Ph.D. in economics at the New School for Social Research, where I have been awarded a university fellowship this year, to finalise my thesis on empirics and development economics.

The fall 2008 semester was a busy one for me, and quite good all in all. I worked with the Overseas Development Institute on a report for the Serbian Finance Ministry; contributed to the Economics Networks new lecturer diary series, and was awarded a grant by the Economics Network to implement the Finance and Economics Experiments Lab at Exeter (FEELE) into a course and explain how this could be done at an upcoming conference. On conferences, I have already been accepted for the History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO) in Antwerp this coming June, where I will present on Keynes and Kuznets' debates over GDP.

The paper I  co-wrote with Trishima Mitra-Kahn on gender wage inequalities in semi-industrial countries was accepted by Feminist Economics for publication in their forthcoming special issue on Inequality, Development and Growth, so that was excellent news. Also the Post Autistic Economic Review published a comment on economics I submitted, which is also being re-printed in a forthcoming economics manual by Adbusters Media Foundation. On a similar note, the Wall Street Journal's Indian partner, The Mint, published an article I wrote on the IMF's new-found public enthusiasm for fiscal policy, and I was part of the team that published the third instalment of the New School Economic Review, so it was an active semester.

My background is an 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, as well as two years of consulting on projects in the private sector on energy, equity raising and forecasting.

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

-Benjamin H. Mitra-Kahn, London, 21 January 2009.