Tag Archives: economics
Mathematical vs. Verbal Reasoning
George Bernard Shaw (1856 — 1950) once said that as a boy he (1) let someone assume that , (2) permitted several steps of algebra, and (3) found that he had accepted a proof that . This incident had a deep impact on Shaw’s thought process and forever after, he distrusted assumptions and algebra. The …
Political and Social Fallout of Tata pulling out of West Bengal
Alright. I am not an expert on West Bengal politics. Anybody who has many friends who hail from that, in the words of Ratan Tata, “terrific State”, and who kept track of the recent happenings there can draw the similar conclusions and ask similar question as I will in this post. There has been a …
India is at 115…
… in the The Heritage Foundation/The Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom released today. In its 14th edition, the annual survey grades countries on a combination of factors including property rights protection, tax rates, government intervention in the economy, monetary, fiscal and trade policy, and business freedom. This article gives us what matters — …
