Urbanomics
Sunday, July 1, 2007
A case for scrapping common General Holidays
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The Government of Andhra Pradesh has notified 23 General Holidays for 2007. Of these, 18 are in commemoration of some religious event. The r...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Savings Paradox
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Savings and Investment are two sides of the same coin. Though saving money is considered desirable, it has its costs. While savings are nece...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
China and the world's best
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I was reading a news that China has built a 36 km bridge across the sea, linking Shanghai and Ningbo, the world's longest sea crossing s...
Monday, June 25, 2007
Justifying American Foreign Policy
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American Foreign Policy suffers from the impossible balancing act between Wilsonian Idealism and Kissingerian Realism. In their idealist gar...
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sport and statistics
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In the late nineties during his stint with the South Africans, the late Bob Woolmer brought the laptop into fashion for a cricket coach. In ...
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Encouraging Positive Externalities
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I have already written about externalities in previous posts. Externalities are outputs or outcomes which are borne by the system external t...
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Rent seeking in civic services
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The ingenuity of rent-seeking channels never ceases to amaze! Sample this latest discovery. Before I venture into it, let me confess that I ...
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