Book Box: Fiction for Economists
Dear Reader,
A fortnight ago, I travelled to Ashoka University to talk about fiction with the Economics Society.
I got my first economics lesson early in life, I told them.
"I was 8 years ago and in trouble. So I decided to run away.
The scene is still vivid in my mind: Eight-year-old me, holding a bag and standing at the back gate of the Jamshedpur bungalow we lived in. The bag had a change of clothes, and my running away book – The Secret Island by Enid Blyton.
The Secret Island.
The four children in this book,…