An MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Collaboration: Abhijit Banerjee and Sarnath Banerjee

We are thrilled to announce a collaboration with Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee and Sarnath Banerjee.

The premise of the project is that economists are too pompous” says Abhijit. While Sarnath explains: “With this grant Abhijit and I are collaborating to create an insubordinate theatrical lecture, in which Abhijit speaks about certain guiding principles to understand water, water crisis, water management.” They explain that the lecture is about water, as a context for any number of the key ideas for economics, while art is a way of constructing new languages, to wake people up.

Watch the full video: http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQbct4IGqg&feature=youtu.be