Today’s Business Standard carries Rajesh Jain’s article on Transforming rural India, the hub way in which he discusses the RISC model. Continue reading “Rajesh Jain’s article in Business Standard on Rural Economic Development”
Category: Rural Development
The Land Grant Colleges and Universities of the US
The development of an economy is a natural consequence of the shift of labor from agriculture to manufacturing, and subsequently from manufacturing to services. Note that the shift refers to the labor; agriculture has to go on still but with fewer people.
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The Need to do Arithmetic
John McCarthy of Stanford University has the following in his .signature file:
Those who refuse to do arithmetic are doomed to speak nonsense.
Over the years I have seen too many instances of errant nonsense that a little bit of arithmetic would have prevented. I think that the power of arithmetic is not fully appreciated. Even people in very powerful positions utter complete nonsense when they refuse to do simple calculations.
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Atanu Dey : Life is a Random Draw 