My friend Mark and my alma mater Auburn University are in news and all that related to my cherished social philosopher and economist F A Hayek, so can’t pass up the opportunity.
Our libertarian blogger
Sen rightly criticised SP on their manifesto to ban English in UP. Shouldn’t Professor Sen extend the arguments he used to defend teaching of English to also support school choice for the poor? Just replace English with private schools, you see the…
I have been meaning to write about the new menifestos of the political parties. But none has really inspired me to write. Well if they can’t inspire then they can surely anger you enough to get you to write! Our CCS grad Mohit has taken…
Professor Kevin Dowd in Lessons from Financial Crisis: A Libertarian Perspective says:
My topic this evening is the current financial crisis. My theme is that the Classical Liberal perspective can help us both to understand the crisis and…
Abha Adams writes in her Mint column: Gandhi wanted to free education from government and state bureaucracy interference. The Mahatma valued self-sufficiency and autonomy, and the more financially independent the schools were, the more politically independent they could be…Gandhi believed in…
Among all parties, the Jago Party offers education reform ideas (see Q 14 and 15 in the FAQs) that are closer to the School Choice Campaign. Well, they actaully go a step further and suggest privatisation of all state schools! They decentralise the education system by…
See an extract of A Better India: A Better World in this week’s Outlook, to be out in April by Penguin.
The three books that influenced Murthy’s thinking are: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber; My Experiments with…
A picture says a thousand words…
Shikha Dalmia takes on Obama on the DC Voucher Program:
“D.C. public schools are violent, chaotic places that have among the highest dropout — and the lowest graduation — rates in the country. In 2007, D.C.’s fourth- and eighth-grade students…