Hi, I'm Parth. 

Professional Bio and Headshot 

You can view my professional bio and headshot here. 

Favorite Reads 

• Kay Redfield Jamison "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness"

• Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: "Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty" 

• Robert Gordon: "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" 

• M Nolan Gray: "Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It" 

• Amia Srinivasan, "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century"

• Richard D. White, "Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895" 

• Liu Cixin, "Three Body Problem" 

• Elena Ferrante, "My Brilliant Friend" 

• Sabyasachi Kar, "The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes"

• John Sidel and Jaime Faustino, "Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines"

• Jen Pahlka, "Recoding America" 

• Lant Pritchett, Eric Werker, and Kunal Sen, "Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes" 

  • And my review of it 

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Peasant Marey"

• Natalie Cargill, "It is the end of the world and I am here to take you home"

Micro-grants 

I run a small microgrants program to provide quick and flexible support for important work. Grants are up to $50k. You can apply for a grant here. If you don't have an idea, here is a list of problems I am excited for people to work on.