Habits of the Heart

Tag: Economics

Social Development in India – What do We Know?

I met Dr. Abusaleh Shariff about a year ago, through a common friend. We kept in touch and promised to connect the next time I was going to be in D.C. It turned out that I was able to meet him just yesterday and spent a good hour chatting about various initiatives at the US…

March 28, 2015
Of Fundamentalism(s) and Mangoes – Review of Andrew Sullivan’s The Conservative Soul

I finally read The Conservative Soul. I had borrowed this book more than three months ago from the library and it was sitting on my book shelf, before I decided to dig into it, to write a white paper on political theory. Given that most of my professors are Marxists, ex-Marxists or Liberals of some…

December 19, 2013
“The boundary of political discourse, unfortunately, is around 4.6% taxes”

“The boundary of political discourse today unfortunately is around 4.6% taxes “ – Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to UN Secretary General and Professor of Economics at Columbia Uni. In a talk which offered a crash-course in economic history of the modern US, and gave a glimpse into the implications of the current administration’s policies in…

October 11, 2011