Kerala's finest economist
"I think that most of the things that welfare economists talk about are those that are obvious to all of us, especially the common people. In fact, even a pure philosopher and religious thinker like Sree Narayana Guru, who achieved a social transformation in Kerala, spoke about the very same things that welfare economists speak about today: education, health care facilities, even small-scale industries... Many people like me practised welfare economics without knowing that it was welfare economics, because we were anxious that economics should help the poor. But people who take economic theory literally would say that this is not our problem."
These words come from Kakkadan Nandanath Raj or plain K.N. Raj, a son of Kerala who can be called - without fear of contradiction - the greatest economist this State has produced.
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