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.... C. Mahalanobis, who also served as the director of the Second Five- Year Plan and who was the chief architect of India’s experiments in largescale household sampling, headed the panel. The debates and controversies surrounding the work of the Mahalanobis Committee (as it came to be called) expose...

... and National Security: A History of Their Interaction, edited by C. D. Goodwin. HOPE 23 ( supplement ): 285 –310. Mahalanobis, Prasanta. 1953 . Some Observations on the Process of Growth of National Income. Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics 12.4 : 307 –12. McCloskey, Donald M. 1991...

.... To the first group belong Johan Henryk Åkerman, Oskar Anderson, Robert Charles Geary, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Charles F. Roos, and Erich Sch- neider, 22 and all of them interpreted Morgenstern’s suggestion as a radical shift in standard practices inside the Econometric Society. Johan Henryk...

... Morgan: Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise , edited by Boumans Marcel Chao Hsiang-Ke . Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 2 . Mahalanobis Prasantra C. 1965 . “ The Social Transformation for National Development .” In Semaine d’Etude sur le Rôle de...

... of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Mahalanobis Prasanta C. 1951 . “In Memoriam: Abraham Wald.” Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics 11 ( 1 ): 1 – 2 . McKenzie Lionel . 1954 . “On Equilibrium in Graham's...

... Indian and overseas economists to tackle them. The urge to professionalize the subject was encouraged by this greater interaction between Indian and overseas economists made possible by the Planning Commission. P. C. Mahalanobis, in particular, invited to In- dia many economists in the mid...

... to these leaders, among them Ragnar Nurkse, P. C. Mahalanobis, and Jacob Viner. Should we take seriously the fact that none of the pioneers cite Paul Baran as having been influential, if not on 508 History of Political Economy 19:3 (1987) themselves then on others involved in development...

... . 2008 . Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Langholm Odd . 1998 . The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Mahalanobis Prasanta Chandra...

.... Mr. V. T. Krishnamachari, vice-chairman of the Planning Commission, felt that it was necessary to have a pool of economists for routine economic work in order to avoid the inevitable delays in getting special ad hoc appointments made by the U.P.S.C. Professor P. C. Mahalanobis, the honorary...

..., statisti- cal innovation followed a growing awareness that growth would not auto- matically result in gains for all parts of the population. In a predecessor of later concerns for growth with redistribution or inclusive growth and development, the Indian statistician and planner P. C. Mahalanobis devel...

... Mahalanobis, P. C., 83,94 Lefeber, Louis, 322 Malan, Pedro, 205 Leff, Nathaniel H., 230, 327 Manne, Alan, 323 Leibenstein, Harry, 317, 323 Marenco, Gaetano, 18 1 Leontief, W., 128, 319 Marglin, S., 230, 326 Less developed countries (LDCs), 106 Marjolin Report, 258...

... Maddala, G. S., 278 exploratory economics, 140–62 Magnus, Jan, 173–76 Cowles Commission, attack on, Magnus-Morgan field experiment, 146–50, 154, 157–59, 162 173–74 “disturbing” nature of Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra, 77 argument, 146...

... (eg, the so-called Mahalanobis model of India’s Second Five-Year Plan) 0 import substitution industrialization: directing investment into the production of imported manufactures, beginning with those industries (generally light or medium) most easily developed 0...

... of approval of a powerful international organization or state (Porter 1995: 90). But even when measures are sound, the dif culties of interpretation of indi- cators of inequality is brought home with clarity by several of the papers in this issue. As Paidipaty shows, P. C. Mahalanobis argued that the level...