Actually, have your best running shoes on when you start telling people what they don’t want to hear. What they generally don’t want to hear is anything that shows them up to be boobs. They don’t want to hear that they are being screwed over by the government. Add to that the fact that they are also very proud of being a “democracy.” Which makes it especially painful for them because if you tell them that their government is raping them, they don’t want to know it because it would mean that they are complicit in their own rape. How does the government manage it, you may ask. One word: media. Continue reading “Tell the Truth and Run like Hell”
Author: Atanu Dey
Economist.
Is it our Moral Responsibility to Save Drowning Children?
Most emphatically yes, if it is within your power to do so. A child accidentally falls into a river and you jump in without a second’s thought – assuming that you can swim – and save the child. But what if there are people who are thoughtlessly or even deliberately pushing children into the river. Should you continue to be fully engaged in saving the drowning children or must you at least tackle the problem where it originates, and go tie up the adults who are dropping children into the river? Continue reading “Is it our Moral Responsibility to Save Drowning Children?”
Manmohan Singh is a Despicably Dishonest Man
First of May
First of May always reminds me of that song. It is one of my all-time favorite love songs. And like the best love songs, it is exquisitely sad. Continue reading “First of May”
Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the Confucian Genius
Everybody Draw a Buddha Day
The End of Work: An Essay on the Dawning of the Post-work World
“The progress of civilization can be measured by how many people are available to not do any work. The trend has been that of an increasing number of (as well as a larger percentage of) people that don’t have to work. The lower the percentage of people in it that work, the better off the civilization.” Continue reading “The End of Work: An Essay on the Dawning of the Post-work World”
Expectations Matter
How society actually functions depends on how people expect it to function. Which means that if you could change expectations you could change society. Which requires will and wisdom. Continue reading “Expectations Matter”
Life is All About Choices — and Paradoxes
Life is also about the paradox of choice. Economists obsess about choice because at the heart of it all, we have to choose among competing wants since we are bound by limits. Being able to choose freely is a good thing but even with choice, you could have too much of a good thing. Continue reading “Life is All About Choices — and Paradoxes”
General Patton’s Speech
Recently I was reminded of General Patton’s speech to his troops. I have been pondering the matter of urban educated Indians and their apparent apathy towards participating in the political process that fundamentally affects the way India is and how it is going to be. India lacks effective leadership. Continue reading “General Patton’s Speech”
Atanu Dey : Life is a Random Draw 