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发帖数: 1709 | 1 “Nobel” for economics: Managing third world poor for the benefit of first
world rich
By Samir Shukla
As a third class citizen of a third world nation, I always await the
declaration of two Nobel prizes, of peace and economics (which I know is not
exactly noble, sorry Nobel), as these two prizes are mostly about how my
first world first class cousins want us, the third world poor, to behave.
As what is “peace” and “economics” is what the western owners of the
planet have an exclusive right to decide about, these prizes are to reward
us for our good behaviour or punish us for our bad (when they don’t feel
that IMF or WTO is not enough).
Though we know that by “peace” or “economics”, they actually mean “
peace and economics as it would work for us the first world rich”, as we
know that they only wish us, the third world well, we celebrate their
affirmation and feel proud of the achievement.
As the Nobel, or rather the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel of this year has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee,
Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to
alleviating global poverty”, it is abundantly clear that our lords and
masters have spoken directly to us Indians by giving us a clear hint, and
hence we must listen.
As these elites don’t use a cudgel to reform us (for that they keep large
armies), they have just given us a condescending look and shown us that one
of our own son has understood what we should be doing, and sad that we didn
’t realise that and rejected NYAY, the greatest ever scheme for “
alleviating poverty” and instead elected Narendra Modi.
It is a small hint they have dropped for the intelligent of our nation to
pick up, and lo and behold! My Facebook wall is full of celebration of this
Nobel as a defeat of Modi-an “Vikas” that masses (most surprisingly for
Indian elites) opted for over free Rs 72000 landing in their pockets.
As one of the ill-informed persons who felt that NYAY was a disaster, this
Nobel is a hard knock on my knuckles as Abhijit Banerjee has used “
experimental approach”, that too while sitting in Ivey league academies,
where I suspect poor of the world flock to get studied.
The beauty of this process is that west aied by these great experts has been
working hard at “alleviating global poverty” since a long time, but, for
the reason unknown (or because we are stupid), the only result is that they
are getting richer and the rest of the world is getting poor.
It is only thanks to China that the poor-numbers are not looking that poor,
as China has decided to do its own economics instead of using Ivey league
wisdom (like India).
If I change the tone of this prose and get candid, the joke is on us and it
should be hurting enough for us to wake up.
The world economics, the Nobel prizes and the Ivey league classes are not
there to reduce our poverty. West has created all these institutions for
only one purpose and that is a selfish purpose.
If west really wanted to solve the problem of poverty, it is clearly working
at the wrong end of the economics.
Poverty is NOT the problem.
Western greed and the obscene wealth created by it is the problem.
The economic theories of “alleviating global poverty” are not aimed at
removing poverty.
They are aimed ONLY at managing the poor for the benefit of the rich.
West knows that poor has to be managed just the right way so that there is
no disruption and rich can carry on exploiting the poor in peace.
We as a nation are the worst suffers of this economic manipulation and we
carry on being stupid to toe the western line. This Nobel celebration of a
person of Indian origin is just a continuation of the fact that we have
still not stepped out of the awe of the west.
I am not sure that Indian culture is about being rich or poor, but if that
is the real problem that we want to see getting solved, China is the
greatest example for us to learn from.
“According to the World Bank, more than 850 million people have lifted
themselves out of extreme poverty as China’s poverty rate fell from 88 per
cent in 1981 to 0.7 per cent in 2015.” (Wikipedia) This was possible
because China didn’t look for western appreciation of its economic policies
by hiring Ivey league experts on poverty. It did its own thinking.
If we want to follow China’s suit, it will need ejecting the west-driven
ideas, doing what is right for us instead of playing to the elite economists
’ galleries of Ivey league and having our home-grown economics.
It will surely mean that there will be a huge loss, as it will mean no Nobel
Prize for us, but there is one small gain likely and that is reduction of
the suffering of millions of Indian poor. | j******l
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