Skills can become obsolete: Why Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo wants students to stop chasing ‘perfect’ careers
At a time when students are constantly told to be “job-ready”, Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo offered a very different — and quietly powerful — message. Speaking at the 19th Jaipur Literature Festival, she reminded young people that the skills they are racing to acquire today may not be the ones that shape their careers…