Author Archive for alexmthomas

Do people reject offers from IIM’s?

Sundar interviews one such person- Manas Garg at Coffee with Sundar.
Some excerpts.
To top it all, I love my job. I love the workplace, I love the kind of work I’m getting and I love the people I’m working with. As you can see, I have enough reason not to go for an MBA just now.
My [...]

GM mosquitoes and ‘their’ policy making

Prasanth at ‘The Daily Pheesh’ expresses skepticism (informed) at the eradication of diseases through  GM (genetically modified) mosquitoes.
GM mosquitoes may be useful or harmful but one cannot deny that their introduction is nothing but a stopgap response to mistakes that were committed much earlier—failures in planning and managing cities, failures in taking health care to rural areas and [...]

Economics and Climate Change

Shanta Devarajan has doubts about the developing countries’ positions on climate change.
if one country takes the lead in reducing GHG emissions, the resulting equilibrium leaves the other country worse off.  Yet this is what India and other developing countries are asking for: that the developed countries first reduce their emissions and not expect the [...]

Politics and Youth

The world according to OVL wonders why
I have never voted in my life, never taken a voters card. Hell, the fact is, I don’t even know how to! I don’t know if I am eligible or not to vote from where I stay as my permanent address is elsewhere. I have absolutely no clue and [...]

On Sensex, FII’s, Reliance and Risk

Kaushik Gala has an interesting collection of comments from Morgan Stanley, Economic Times and the RBI.

Sovereign wealth funds

Shromon Das discusses Sovereign wealth funds, a new phenomenon in the global financial arena.
Logic and rationality prevail in a utopian world. Unfortunately, this is not the case in the world we live in. While one may justify a SWF on the basis of its economic logic, the industry has been mired in controversy. The reason [...]




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