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Not your Father's Thousand Points of Light

enigmafoundry wrote 1 year ago: A Process that (very strangely) is under the radar of most right now is the expansion of the Not-for … more »

Tags: Books, Economics, Future, Globalization, Intellectual Property, Pharma, NFP/NGO

Not your Father's Thousand Points of Light

enigmafoundry wrote 1 year ago: A Process that (very strangely) is under the radar of most right now is the expansion of the Not-for … more »

Tags: Intellectual Property, Globalization, Future, Books, Pharma, NFP/NGO, Economics

The Free Press, Famines, and Disease Outbreaks

enigmafoundry wrote 1 year ago: There are so many little nuggets in Amartya Sen’s book Development as Freedom that I really do … more »

Tags: War, The Media Landscape, Terrorism, Infectious Disease, First Amendment, Epidemiology, Books

Amartya Sen, "India's democracy has worked well enough"

gkalyanaram wrote 1 week ago: Indian government is now struggling with the choices regarding India-US Nuclear agreement.  There … more »

Tags: democracy, GeoPolitics, India, India, democracy

A short synopsis on the role of the clan in Somalia Or The Separation of the Clan and the State

evolvingprimate wrote 4 weeks ago: The poet Alfred Tennyson famously wrote, “for I dipt into the future, far as the human eye could s … more »

Tags: General Politics, Somali Diaspora, Somali Politics, Civil War, Clan-Bigotry, Ethiopia, Ralph W Emerson, Somalia, TFG

Carvaka - An atheistic Indian philosophy

aristotlethegeek wrote 1 month ago: The first time I read about Carvaka, also known as Lokayata, was in a comment by Radical Hypocrite o … more »

Tags: Philosophy, India, Hinduism, Carvaka, Atheism, Materialism, Indian Philosophy, lokayata, Madhavacharya

CFP: International Conference on Development, Freedom and Welfare

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 month ago: International Conference on Development, Freedom and Welfare in Honor of PROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN New … more »

Tags: Philosophy, CFP, New Dehli

The Rich Get Hungrier2 comments

Maryanne wrote 1 month ago: By AMARTYA SEN Published: May 28, 2008 WILL the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions e … more »

Tags: Food crisis, Hungry, Food crisis, rich

Dangerous Identity

gitmochajoe wrote 2 months ago: “My first exposure to murder occurred when I was eleven. This was in 1944, in the communal riots t … more »

Tags: cultural diversity, genocide, Violence, India, Rwanda, ethnic conflict, Religious Conflict

Top 100 intellectuals

asianwindow wrote 2 months ago: The Prospect/Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 “public intelle … more »

Tags: Lists, Aitzaz Ahsan, Ashis Nandy, Fareed Zakaria, Mohammed Yunus, public intellectuals, Ramachandra Guha, Salman Rushdie, Sunita Narain

The New Prameter Of Economy-II

Team ASO wrote 2 months ago: Mihir Jha The concept of GNH as i dealt in my previous article is a simple, top-down micro level app … more »

Tags: Economics, Economy, GNH, Capability Set

The Self-Regulating Market requires state intervention

enigmafoundry wrote 2 months ago: Tim Lee makes a couple of points about what he sees as the puzzling connections between free trade a … more »

Tags: 2007 Predictions, Books, Economics, food crises, Future, Globalization, Informational Exclusions, Jerry Brito, Karl Polanyi

Interview With Rita Banerji of '50 Million Missing' 6 comments

Barbara Raisbeck wrote 2 months ago: Rita Banerji is founder and chief administrator of the on-line international campaign 50 MILLION MIS … more »

Tags: Interview With Rita Banerji of '50 Million Missing', India, female infanticide, genocide, female feoticide, 50 million missing, rita banerji, Calcutta, dowry murders

Amartya Sen encapsulates why we should care

Vinay wrote 2 months ago: One of the ongoing discussions that is linked ot the field of social entrepreneurship is the very na … more »

Tags: basic Rights, Glossary/Background, Research, development, Empowerment, Opportunities, stanford

Amartya Sen, Terry Barker and the Stern Report1 comment

omnologos wrote 2 months ago: Terry Barker (Co-ordinating Lead Author, Working Group 3 (Mitigation), Intergovernmental Panel for C … more »

Tags: AGW, catastrophism, ipcc, Policy, Politics, Climate chaos, ipcc, nicholas stern, Nigel Lawson

Five (real) lessons for Chamalapura from Dahanu11 comments

churumuri wrote 3 months ago: The decision of the Karnataka government to pick out Chamalapura in H.D. Kote taluk off the map of … more »

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Mysore-Bangalore, Rajas & Maharajas, Chamalapura, Anil Ambani, Wodeyars, Al Gore, P Chidambaram

Develoment as Freedom

moattari wrote 4 months ago: If you are interested in the idea of development and you are familiar with the concept of sustainab … more »

Tags: Blogroll, Health Economy, Global Health, Develoment as Freedom

Ashoka - The Transition from Mass-Murder Maniac to Apostle of Peace. 21 comments

wanderlust wrote 4 months ago: We’ve read it in the history books. We’ve even watched a movie about it. We’ve hea … more »

Tags: Controversies, Priya's Travails, Secularism, ahimsa, Art of Living, Ashoka, Buddhism, Chanakya, Indian History

HDI (Human Development Index) 1 comment

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 5 months ago: HDI (Human Development Index) The HDI is comprised of three equally weighted sub-indices: a life exp … more »

Tags: Policy research, Social Justice, Political Philosophy, social capital, Policy Development, Measuring Money, moral mathematics, Algorithms, Environment


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