The politics and personalities behind the partition of India — one of the most important events in modern human history.
Author Archives: Amol
Debt: The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber
A history of debt.
Boomerang, by Michael Lewis
The 2008 financial crisis from different perspectives.
The Post-American World 2.0, by Fareed Zakaria
A globalist view of America’s role in the world.
Freakanomics – Shadow Economy
From 8-30-12: -Shadow economy = unreported income -in 2010, world bank estimated that 17% of world GDP in shadow economy -in us, less than 9% of GDP, but 20% of purchases on shadow economy
Vedanta Yoga – Buddha
From July 2012: -Two types of suffering: (1) Temporal sufferings and (2) Existential suffering. Spiritual life intends to overcome existential suffering -Four noble truths: (1) Life is fully of existential suffering; (2) Suffering is inescapable; (3) Suffering is caused by unfulfillment; (4) Fulfilment is achieved using the Eight fold path
Stuff You Should Know – Earth 50k years from now
From July 2012: -One-billionth of sun’s power reaches the earth, and currently we harvest one-millionth of that one-billionth portion -”Types” of civilization: Type 0 (what we are now); Type 1 (ability to harvest all energy of a planet–humans could get there in 100 years); Type 2 (harvest all energy of a solar system); TypeContinue reading “Stuff You Should Know – Earth 50k years from now”
Planet Money – Currency
From 5-16-12: -Only 30% of transactions (consumer to business transactions) are conducted using paper currency
Planet Money – Cost of College
From 5-15-12: -high sticker price of colleges is not the same as what people actually pay. -high sticker price connotes “better” education and allows schools to offer higher scholarships -some people will pay the higher price enabling schools to offer high scholarships and aid to those who went/can’t -actually cost of private college thatContinue reading “Planet Money – Cost of College”
Freakanomics – Patents
From 5-10-12: -women account for only 7 percent of filed patents
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