Tag Archives: Sendhil Mullainathan

Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience

Posted on January 1, 2021 by VM

From the abstract of ‘Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh’, November 24, 2020: There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Science | Tagged astrology, attentional space, Ayurveda, cognitive function, faith-based medicine, intelligence, IQ, John Henryism, phytotherapy, Poverty, poverty trap, pseudoscience, scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan, traditional medicine | Leave a comment

Review: ‘Parasite’ (2019)

Posted on February 17, 2020 by VM

In 2011, the Dalit rights scholar and activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (then only Kancha Ilaiah) addressed a room of 150 or so students of the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. In the first 20 minutes of his speech, he spoke … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture | Tagged Bong Joon-ho, caste guilt, class conflict, cognitive function, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Parasite, Parasite film, Poverty, Sendhil Mullainathan, Shaheen Bagh | Leave a comment

Ad verecundiam

Posted on October 14, 2019 by VM

That Swedish group announced today that Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for economics. Within minutes, my Twitter feed was awash with congratulations as well as links to criticisms Duflo and … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged Abhijit Banerjee, ad verecundiam, demonetisation, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Narendra Modi, Sendhil Mullainathan | Comments Off

Tag Archives: Sendhil Mullainathan

Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience

Review: ‘Parasite’ (2019)

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