{"title":"On the Road","authors":"K. Basu","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This is a chapter of travel and travelogue and describes the author’s encounters in various places and with various peoples, from India’s remote northeast and rural Bengal, through Israel, Italy, and Germany, to the people of Samoa in the Pacific and the Zapotecs of Teotitlan de Valle in Mexico. It is a commentary on the diversity of cultures across the world, but also an account of the underlying similarities of emotions and instincts across societies separated by continents and seas, with little overt interaction.","PeriodicalId":170208,"journal":{"name":"An Economist's Miscellany","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132931307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture and Economics","authors":"K. Basu","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Culture is often treated as the decoration on the economy, something that is of no consequence for the economy. This chapter takes a contrary line. Through tales and accounts of real-life encounters, the chapter illustrates the important role that culture and social institutions play in the functioning of an economy, at times paving the way for development prosperity, at times blocking growth and economic progress. Trust and trustworthiness are often as important as having a robust legal system for contract enforcement. They can make or break an economy.","PeriodicalId":170208,"journal":{"name":"An Economist's Miscellany","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122055864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medley","authors":"Kaushik Basu","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter, a medley of biographical and personal essays, talks about incidents from the author’s experience in the class room and at home. It contains stories of classroom fiascos, an essay on the author’s mother turning 90, and another one on India turning 60.","PeriodicalId":170208,"journal":{"name":"An Economist's Miscellany","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127939083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Global Challenge","authors":"K. Basu","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of populism, hyper-nationalism and hard-core right-wing ideology, which is threatening to erode democracy, has been a global concern over the last five or six years. These relatively recent essays constitute a discourse on political economy to understand the origins of this ‘new politics’, and the risks that it constitutes for the world. The essays examine various factors that gave rise to this, from the availability of new, digital technology for mass communication, to the limitations of human language for parsing our complex world with multiple participants from different social backgrounds where the same words have different meaning. The essays cover different geographies—from United States and Brazil to India—and different methodologies to examine this new global challenge","PeriodicalId":170208,"journal":{"name":"An Economist's Miscellany","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133696821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India and the World","authors":"K. Basu","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 9 contains papers and essays written by the author after his move from academe to the world of policymaking. The essays straddle some of the same topics as in the previous chapters—India’s economic trajectory, India’s slowdown and policies to fire up the economy, and the jostling between China and the United States and its fallout for the world. But the essays are now tainted by the author’s direct, first-hand experience in the world of politics and policymaking, in New Delhi and Washington, DC. The chapter also contains an analysis of India’s demonetization policy.","PeriodicalId":170208,"journal":{"name":"An Economist's Miscellany","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128079460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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