Truck and Barter

This legacy of open invitations just picked up one more person. Thanks Kevin... its weird writing a blog on a site that isn't my own. In all honesty, I feel completely dwarfed by Kevin, Ian and Bob, who have done a great job with the blog so far. I wonder what they're doing giving me the keys!

I am a graduate student at the London School of Economics. Not surprisingly, I am majoring in Economics, and will be finishing up my masters degree this year. I'm in the process of applying to three grad schools in the US. Hopefully, if all goes well, I would have changed the world and convinced a PhD committee that they need to kick me out with a degree (in no particular order of occurance) by the end of the decade.

My primary area of interest (for now) is Monetary Theory and Dynamic Macroeconomics. However, as the days go by, I think I am finding a very comfortable second home in General Equilibrium and other Microeconomic fields like Mechanism Design and Contract Theory. More than anything, I love Economics for the controversy and political hooplah that surrounds it. Its fun to stand back and watch as people fight over whether you need to use a screwdriver or a hammer to put a nail through a wall.

Going by the kind of writing that the others have put up here at Truck and Barter, I will probably be the black sheep. I plan to write a lot about India, my country of origin and first love (you can read more about me here). If you ever want out of the serious talk, you're always free to read my personal writing which I will continue on my own site.

For now... [exeunt - stage right].