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what I am currently reading, reviewing, critiquing
You are a startup
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Have you had work lunch in lockdown?
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Note to Self
Advertisements Being quiet is being loud with your soul. Ask how worries become oceans and swallow the shanty towns of existence, as if all there was to life was a hopeless struggle to not drown. Imagine being quiet with a life like that. No, you can’t. There is no noise to this state of being.
How to write meaningfully
Advertisements You might want to check this video out, as recommended by Prof Michael Muthukrishna in his newsletter. It’s long (and yes, I went through all of it) to genuinely recommend it to you all. But of course, see if this works for you. https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM
Professor Sir John Hills
His influential body of work looked at issues of inequality, social inclusion, the welfare state and the role of social policy.
50 before I die
Advertisements Making to-do lists is banal. We may never get around to doing them. But perhaps, putting them on a list will help me stay focussed. I need daily reminders of things I want to do before I die. Here is the first 14 out of 50 in the order of priority: 1. Work on… Continue reading 50 before I die
How to be happy
Advertisements https://twitter.com/hcmariwala/status/1298842342007246848 I am attempting to gather my thoughts around each of the points suggested by Harsh Mariwala on Twitter today on how to be happy. Let’s see how it goes: Think about what you’re grateful for Umm. What am I grateful for? For life, no matter whatever it brings. Being alive is a gift.… Continue reading How to be happy
Death of a star
Advertisements I was in deep trauma after the news came in and wrote this which I strongly urge you to read. Often, I am compelled to write about events that are beyond the purview of my research in economic history but I am a whole person, not just someone doing this research. When something affects… Continue reading Death of a star
EconHistorienne #5: Scattered, aren’t we all?
even the best of optimism needs flickering boats and sinking in the seas once in a while…
Pandemics and Inequality
Advertisements Economic Historian Guido Alfani, who studies long run trends in inequality, posted a series of tweets on pandemics and inequality this week. To sum up: Some pandemics in history helped reduce inequality, but it would be wrong to say that all pandemics reduce inequality. 2. Some pandemics may not have macro impact but can… Continue reading Pandemics and Inequality
Games, Automation and AI
Advertisements When everything else falters, trust games, automation and AI to lift businesses up. That explains why an overwhelming share of action in the world of business during the past week has centered around these three. With more people likely to stay indoors or work from home on account of Covid-19, businesses and investors have… Continue reading Games, Automation and AI
Ivy League or Russell Group?
Advertisements I think this week quite settles the question, for now. The immigration controversy has exposed the racism inherent in US immigration policy and Trump administration has exposed it only too well. Now, this happened today: https://twitter.com/AndrewMCrespo/status/1280838501957865473 This is a welcome development but the results are yet to be seen. So far, foreign students at… Continue reading Ivy League or Russell Group?
Between the devil and the deep sea
Advertisements This Guardian cartoon totally sums up what I am trying to say! So we know what the world is looking like as lock downs come to an end in many parts of the world. People are gathering in hordes without masks, getting drunk like there is no tomorrow basically — https://twitter.com/StephenBLowe/status/1279522924836409344 …. even as… Continue reading Between the devil and the deep sea
EconHistorienne #4 The Outsider
Advertisements In this edition, you will read – What the death of an actor tells us about inequality in India My experience of discrimination Inequality of opportunity that arises out of discrimination Go here to read. If you missed issue #3 last week, read it here. Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email me: econhistorienne@gmail.com
How Hamilton Created U.S. Economic Independence
EconHistorienne Issue #3 is Out
Advertisements Issue #3 of EconHistorienne, a newsletter to help us make sense of inequality, capitalism and globalisation around the world, is out today. Last week, EconHistorienne followed a doctor at a hospital in India’s national capital New Delhi to chronicle his regular day at work and the worsening health inequalities during Covid-19 pandemic. Just as… Continue reading EconHistorienne Issue #3 is Out
Pandemic of Inequality Won’t Let Us Breathe
Advertisements Illustration by Parag Dabke. The world we live in is getting scarier as disturbing events unfold. Floyd’s gruesome killing has sparked fierce reactions globally and we are now left tracing its roots to the long-standing racial prejudices that have existed alongside decades of material prosperity. We know this could be traced to British colonialism… Continue reading Pandemic of Inequality Won’t Let Us Breathe
Are Firms Too Risk-Averse?
Advertisements Interesting research on firms and their capacity to take risks. While firms may be risk averse, employees can be evaluated on what they can control and not on what they can not control. This and more useful points here. https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/06/are-firms-too-risk-averse.html
Protected: जग ज़ाहिर
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EconHistorienne: Inaugural issue out now, sign up
Advertisements So finally, it’s here and it would be great for you to sign up for it now. Go to econhistorienne.substack.com and sign up. Let me know how you like it. Love and peace, PS.
A memoir about an off-the-grid childhood and breaking out of it
Living life off the grid for the first seventeen years of her life, Tara goes through an entire gamut of challenges that she, along with her siblings, treated as ordinary as getting through another day without school.
The Understanding Money Mechanics
Advertisements mises.org/library/understanding-money-mechanics-0 I am a big sucker for economists explaining things, and an over sharer of all such knowledge made public. After Arjun Jayadev and Franko Milanovic’s free online video lecture series on Inequality, here is another one worth your time (link above) – The Understanding Money Mechanics series – by Robert P. Murphy. This is all… Continue reading The Understanding Money Mechanics
Share from Mostlyeconomics: Three development paradigms of Indian economy
Advertisements Vijay Kelkar Convocation Address at BHU: Three development paradigms of Indian economy https://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/vijay-kelkar-convocation-address-at-bhu-three-development-paradigms-of-indian-economy/ — Read on mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/vijay-kelkar-convocation-address-at-bhu-three-development-paradigms-of-indian-economy/
Link between education and the industrial revolution – Sharing Amol Agarwal’s post
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Budget 2020: Past matters but future is raged over
Advertisements Yeah so, even as Budget 2020 is waiting to be ripped apart mostly for what it’s projections for the year ahead are, I am worried how little we care about the past when it comes to the budget. Hey, what exactly is budget anyway? Just a simple record of what the government earned and… Continue reading Budget 2020: Past matters but future is raged over
Why would a girl in Norway call herself a Hindu Cowgirl?
Advertisements Don’t jump to conclusions right away and check this out: https://www.youtube.com/user/HinduCowGirl/videos This is the breathtaking video feed of a lady train driver/engineer who works on the Bergen Line in Norway and shoots stunning videos while driving on the route way from the driver’s cabin. She is clearly smitten by Hindu cows, hence the name.… Continue reading Why would a girl in Norway call herself a Hindu Cowgirl?
EconHistorienne
Advertisements I am launching EconHistorienne, my twice-a-month newsletter for original storytelling from India. Through this newsletter, I will deliver Narrative Storytelling on Inequality, Capitalism, Globalization and Social Unrest in India and essays on History to contextualize these themes. Why should you subscribe to my newsletter? Because you read, you value great research, you love good… Continue reading EconHistorienne
Replugging Marginal Revolution interview with Vox media’s Ezra Klein because he is awesome!
Advertisements My Conversation with Ezra Klein http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/marginalrevolution/feed/~3/S5rdzp8xwf0/my-conversation-with-ezra-klein.html — Read on feedproxy.google.com/~r/marginalrevolution/feed/~3/S5rdzp8xwf0/my-conversation-with-ezra-klein.html
Can humans always be maximising their interests?
Advertisements Gratitude, Kindness, Loveliness https://www.econlib.org/Gratitude_Kindness_Loveliness
Perfection
Truth is, perfection is a feeling – a feeling that there is nothing wrong, no treatment ever shoddy, no care ever incomplete, no expectation ever unmet.
Protected: Being Equal
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