A Comprehensive Discussion of the Indian Economy and its Problems

Prabhat Patnaik and Jospeh Stiglitz in conversation (3 yrs ago, Columbia Univ)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7154370381634513450

Listen in the dark, with quality headphones and the rain beating on your window

"How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself." 
-Kenneth Tynan, critic and writer (1927-1980) 

Notes of a reader

Creative Accounting is Destructive. Period.

From Dud-Dud-Tish to Boom Boom...Here's Coldplay.

Le Guard-ian of the World's Coffers

Finally a woman ruling the IMF!! Why is the distribution of economists so skewed in favour of males? I cannot conceive of a rational explanation. I believe Orrell had something to say about it in EconoMyths but I can't quite recall what it was just now.In absolute contradiction to global trends though, my department is dominated by females (9 out of 50 in my class are male!) How many of us will veer towards academics,though? The probability that any given student from my class who pursues econ, is female, is ofcourse higher...but statistical forecasts are known to have been terribly wrong in the past.Ah well...Time will tell.

Good Profile of George Akerlof from F&D

George Akerlof by Prakash Loungani