Who Is Afraid of Economists

words are being written one reads in the newspapers the announcement of the IMF loan finally going through, India accepting every one of the conditions about which there has been so much of rumbling in the country. The state- ment issued by the "23 eminent economists from different parts of the country who met in Calcutta on August 7 and 8 at the invitation of the Government of West Bengal" does not seem to have had any effect on the course of events.