Standing on the Sun

Epilogue

In any given country, we benefit from living around well-off neighbors, and we trade and share many things with them, and we can as a species spread all of these things around the world … with one proviso: we will have to keep updating rules.

—Paul Romer, New York, September 15, 2010

Economics has been seen as separated from the rest of human learning, divorced from religion or ethics, because it's all about “rationality.” But [in India] I see everyone is rational, but it's not always about in-the-moment profit maximization. By rationality I mean a concept of self which is about fulfillment, a much bigger concept. And I don't know when or how that is going to clash with the “capitalist economic system.”

—Nikhil Ojha, Mumbai, October ...