In yesterday’s musings on whether education promotes development, I had promised to outline a proposal for making India 100 percent literate within three years. Here is the modest proposal.
Month: September 2004
Does Educational Spending Promote Growth?
Back in February I had examined the matter of why education is underprovided in India. My insistence that basic education was a necessity for development prompted Alok Mittal to ask about the connection between economic development and education.
Misplaced Conclusions
“My uncle died sadly due to his habit of drinking tea?” “That’s amazing! I have heard of people dieing because of alcohol. But tea?” “Yes, tea lead to his death. He was crossing the road to get himself a cup… Read More ›
The Power of M-type Arguments
Suhit Anantula forwarded an open letter to Krugman from Arnold Kling. In it, Kling told Krugman that he (Krugman) was using too many M type arguments (M for “motivation”) and not enough C type arguments (C for “consequence”) when Krugman… Read More ›
Why, oh why, are they so materialistic?
Prashant has raised a very interesting point. And one of the more important statements he makes is “… several religions of the world preach that material belongings are unimportant.”
You might be a third-world country if …
I have been writing this blog for a year. I have learnt a bit and I hope that it was not a waste a time for those who visit it occassionally. About 100 unique visitors show up every day on… Read More ›
The Power of Incentives
It is said that one should not ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained as stupidity. I would go one step further and say that one should not ascribe to malice or stupidity what can be explained by basic… Read More ›
Pondering Outsourcing: Part Duh
I was pondering outsourcing yesterday and ran out of pondering time. Now that I have some pondering time, I thought I would continue with my pondering of outsourcing. {“ponder”: interesting word, isn’t it? Perhaps I should look it up… Here… Read More ›
Is Outsourcing Good for the Universe
Via Rajesh Jain, I came to know of NY Times report on Paul Samuelson’s essay in an upcoming issue of JEP. I am probably one of the very few who have not read Samuelson’s celebrated book on introductory economics. That… Read More ›
The magic that is the internet
The internet is huge. It is bigger than one can imagine. We are fortunate that we have access to the internet. And I feel for those who do not have access to this astounding wealth of information and possible source… Read More ›
