Arun Maira
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Instead of chasing GDP growth, India must redesign its broken ladder of upward mobility (opens the original)
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India’s leaders must find systemic solutions to the country’s employment problems. The economy is not creating enough good jobs for young people, even if more were to pursue higher education and the examination system functioned smoothly. More technology to fix the examination system will not solve the deeper problem of the economy. Moreover, there is increasing evidence that use of more technology and AI will worsen India’s unemployment crisis. While it may be unclear whether AI will create mor
‘Markets know best’ and other 20th century economic theories are harming the world (opens the original)
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“There is nothing as practical as a good theory,” social psychologist Kurt Lewin wrote in 1951 in his book, Field Theory in Social Science. His point was that a sound theory is not an abstract luxury. A good theory helps understand how things work, predict outcomes and design effective action. It is intensely practical because it guides better decisions. The corollary of Lewin’s theory is, of course, that there is nothing more impractical than a bad theory. Recent developments have challenged th
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