Introduction This blog begins by reviewing a classic – Why Nations Fail – the Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daren Acemoglu and James A Robinson, and then moves on to more contemporary themes around how ‘civilization erasure’ as a construct is being deployed to bring in authoritarian regimes that would impact prosperity and […]
Tag: Politics
Adolescence, Boy Psychology / Immature Masculinity, and the EUM Lens
Gagandeep Singh 21 min read · Just now Introduction This note is written as I prepare to join Kartik Shah for our EUM based podcast in the month of May. While the blog presents my initial thoughts were around the Netflix serial — titled Adolescence, and the theme of ‘immature masculinity’ — which often gets […]
Trump Tariff Economics – What lies beneath?
Introduction Thirty-four years ago, I was enrolled in a master’s degree in economics, and found myself comfortably numb, and of course leaning to the left as any wannabe intellectual – quoting Marx and then something happened… On 24th July 1991, the finance minister – Dr. Manmohan Singh (who later became a brilliant prime minister of India […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 