Part dos

I did it! I finished Sach's "End of Poverty"!

EOM

mon(k)eynomix

Monkey business:



FYI, turns out I am completely risk averse.

Multi-You

As this blog continues to stray from a narrow development economics path, I feel compelled to consciously justify my choices for blog topics. As many of you out there, I am not immune to having many interests and keeping up with several of them. I am thoroughly, truly, madly, and deeply fascinated by people who manage to specialize in a certain field and follow through with it, making it their career and life calling. My own inability to control my self-diagnosed ADD has given me an insight into the multi-layered, multifaceted ways to even begin to discuss development economics. People always ask me what DevEc means to me. To me, it is a blend of cultural, social, basic micro- and macroeconomic, environmental, political, military, scientific, humanist, purposeful, engaging and informative understanding of the world on an individual, case-by-case, as well as global scale. How can we begin to search for solutions if we don't even grasp the nature of the problem? What if the problem is only a mere difference in all of the aforementioned characteristics derived from an artificially created divide we have drawn between OECD and non-OECD political entities?

Well, what does it mean to you?

Life is beautiful, albeit overwhelming

Data surrounds us. We swim in it, breathe in it. We socialize with it, share, discuss, fight over it.

The question is, how do we organize it? Information, just like life itself, can be very beautiful if looked through a reflecting prism, at a particular angle. Moreover, overflowing stats taken aside, organization can be creative and liberating.

With the following TED talk I hope that you will leave this blog inspired and start looking at the usual daily news chewed and thrown at you in a brighter, more color-coordinated light.