Economics professor Farrokh Langdana uses the past to explain the present
Arnavaz J. Mama
"There’s a lot of history in economics. The economy of today is truly built upon events in the past. History pervades all forms of decision making, whether we are aware of it or not,” says Dr Farrokh Langdana, professor in the department of finance and economics at Rutgers University and director of its Executive MBA Program since 1996. What he does not say is that he has infected his happy students with his own passion for history, public finance and economic theory so that for years without number he has bagged the University’s Excellence in Teaching award, starting with the......