Pranab BARDHAN is one of the world’s most prominent economists of development . He is the author or co-author of several books, including most recently 'International Trade, Growth and Development' (Blackwell, 2003), 'Poverty, Agrarian Structure, and Political Economy in India' (Oxford U.P. 2003), 'Scarcity, Conflicts and Cooperation: Essays in Political and Institutional Economics of Development' (MIT Press, 2004), 'Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution' (Princeton U.P, forthcoming), and
'The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists' (Blackwell, forthcoming).

Graduate seminar: Global Justice
Pranab Bardhan’s lecture will form the prologue of the first joint UCL-KuLeuven “Ethics and Public Policy” seminar devoted this year to the theme of “Global Justice”
(Toon Vandevelde & Philippe Van Parijs).
It will be preceded by a brief presentation of the seminar.
Further details about the seminar are available on the web site of the Chaire Hoover: http://www.etes.ucl.ac.be/.

Informal encounter : The miracle of Indian democracy
On Friday 23 September, 11-12.30 (Salle Vives, Dupriez D305), Pranab BARDHAN will kick off an informal exchange on the achievements and challenges of democracy in the Indian Union. The discussion will be launched by Robert Deliège (UCL/FLTR), author of Gandhi (“Que sais-je?”, 1999).