Monday, April 21, 2008

govt Vs stock market

  • Instant feedback
  • Role of short sellers
  • Relevance of correction
  • Absence of feedback
  • Law of averages

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Chinese competition

  • Sarees of Varanasi

Friday, April 4, 2008

productivity improvement

  • Simultaneous improvement of complimentary goods

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Piracy

Piracy in India

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Freedom

  1. Urban Freedom
  2. Rural Freedom
    • Autonomy of villages
      • before british rule
      • during british rule
      • after freedom

Charity

1. Organised charity
2. Foundations
3. Undocumented charity
4. Urban Charity
5. Rural Charity

Saturday, March 1, 2008

education

1. govt spending on education since 1947
2. private spending on education
3. policy to setup private university

restrictions by govt

1. restriction on occupation
2. restriction on business
3. Wage and price control

conflicting govt decisions

1. programs that cancel out

govt spending as a percentage of gdp

1. growth of spending since 1947
2. spending on subsidies
3. tax collections
4. debt raised domestically
5. debt raised overseas
6. revenue from PSU over and above taxes
7. revenue lost do to tax breaks or exemptions

lobbying in india

1. special interests groups
2. civil servants
1. Inflation since 1947
2. Taxation limit since 1947
3. Growth since 1947
4. Govt. deficit since 1947