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Kaushik Basu
Jan 02, 2021The Economic Case for LGBT Equality
Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All (Queer Action/Queer Ideas)
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An economist demonstrates how LGBT equality and inclusion within organizations increases their bottom line and allows for countries' economies to flourishWe know that homophobia harms LGBT individuals in many ways, but economist M. V. Lee Badgett argues that in addition to moral and human rights reasons for equality, we can now also make a financia...
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Nov 20, 2020In 1974-75, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman traveled the length of South America, living among a dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine. It was a journey inspired and made possible by their Harvard mentor, Richard Evans Schultes, the most im...
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Oct 01, 2020"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." So begins Political Theology, the book that, marked Carl Schmitt as one of the most significant political and legal theoreticians of the 20th century. Writing amid the intense political and intellectual ferment of the early Weimar Republic, Schmitt argued that the essence of sovereignty ties in the ab...
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Sep 13, 2020In 19th-century Calcutta, a financially strong Indian elite emerged under the rule of the British East India Company, building up eclectic Bengali equivalents of industrialists' mansions, apparent stylistic blends of traditional Mughal architecture with more classical elements. Today the erstwhile magnificent villas and palaces retain only a shred ...
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Feb 14, 2020The State of Economics, the State of the World
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Leading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises.More than a decade of financial crises, sovereign debt problems, political conflict, and rising xenophobia and protectionism has left the global economy unsettled and the ability of economics as a discipline to account fo...
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Aug 29, 2019A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory--the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities bet...
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Apr 20, 2019Also recommended by
Steven PinkerDemonetisation
From Deprivation to Destitution
This microbook visibilises via lived reality analysis the ramifications of demonetisation on various facets of the lives, labour and livelihoods of the marginalised, specifically construction workers, both men and women. The impacts of Notebandi are estimated and quantified in measurable terms, combined with the articulation of people's testimonies...
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Dec 28, 2018Swami Vivekananda on Himself
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This book is a documentation of selected notes and utterances of Swamiji about himself and his work. These are arranged chronologically so as to form what may be called a near autobiography of the saint....
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Dec 02, 2018Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that the best way to fight income inequality is with a radically simple idea: a guaranteed income for working people, paid for by the one percent.The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were peo...
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Mar 14, 2018The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionaryLike one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America...
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Jan 07, 2018Also recommended by
Nilanjana RoyIndira by Sagarika Ghose
The Modern Monk by Hindol Sengupta
Letters for a Nation by Jawaharlal Nehru
Letters of Swami Vivekananda by Swami Vivekananda
Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Memoirs of European Travel by Swami Vivekananda
Law and the Economy in Colonial India by Tirthankar Roy
Money in the Bank by P. G. Wodehouse
Inequality by Anthony B. Atkinson