Dipak Banerjee (1930–2007) was an

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economist. He obtained his Bachelor and, later on, Doctorate from the

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and taught at

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, where he eventually became head of the economics department. Among his students at Presidency was noted Indian economist Debraj Ray. His wife Nirmala Patankar is also an economist, as is his son, the Nobel Prize winner

Abhijit Banerjee Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the ...

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