"This book charts the course of Kaushik Basu’s career over seven years, as he moved from the cloisters of academia to the frenetic world of policymaking, first in India as chief economic adviser to the Indian government and after that as chief economist at the World Bank in Washington.

This book is a revised version of the diary that Kaushik Basu kept for seven years. Revised because he often wrote the diary in a hurry at the day’s or even week’s end. He has now inserted some reflections in retrospect, without altering any descriptions of what actually happened." (Full Description)