READING LIST:
Corruption is morally bad, but economically beneficial for a nation’s prosperity
1. http://ravi-k-r.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/why-not-legalise-corruption.htm
2. http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/outside-in/entry/legalizing-corruption
3. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/make-bribe-giving-legal-narayana-murthy/169040-3.html
4. ac.aua.am/yelena_vardanyan/Web/flesh/.../UNPAN000533.pdf
5. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/06/does_corruption.html
6. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues6/
7. http://www.u4.no/helpdesk/helpdesk/query.cfm?id=44
Is the Constitution of India obsolete?
1. http://www.bloggersbase.com/politics-and-opinions/is-our-constitution-out-dated-and-obsolete/
2. http://www.sanghparivar.org/blog/dr-k-prabhakar-rao/constitution-needs-overhaul
3. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?233926
4. http://desicritics.org/2006/06/05/021232.php
5. http://dearsonu.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/iipm-prof-arindam-chaudhuri-on-supreme-court-should-ban-the-sedition-law-which-is-not-only-archaic-but-also-discriminatory-and-antidemocratic/
6. http://www.expressbuzzblogs.com/post/2010/01/11/How-can-we-fix-our-archaic-laws.aspx
7. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article1553426.ece
8. http://mitukhurana.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/divorce-on-the-rise-in-india-but-archaic-laws-leave-women-cast-aside/
9. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-11-11/mumbai/28254251_1_housing-societies-archaic-laws-elevator-technology
The loss due to pandemics and disasters are more because of a policy failure than natural reasons
1. http://www.progressivereform.org/Katrina.cfm
2. http://businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/analysis/columnists/24934-flood-policy-failure-in-disaster-management
3. www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv23n1/harrington.pdf
4. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66494/alastair-smith-and-alejandro-quiroz-flores/disaster-politics
5. http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/03/the-politics-of-disaster.html
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/business/15scene.html?pagewanted=all
7. http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5117e/y5117e05.htm
Financial crisis is a man-made catastrophe
1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O21rXvJAXrQ
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/3187467/Financial-crisis-is-man-made-catastrophe-says-World-Bank-chief.html
3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/8417033/Dereliction-of-the-Big-Four-blamed-for-financial-crisis.html
4. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/26/road-ruin-recession-individuals-economy
5. http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/15/stories/2009091558000200.htm
6. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2011/06/08/preventing-the-next-financial-crisis/
7. http://www.ijesar.org/docs/volume2_issue1/financial_crisis.pdf
8. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/12/will-culture-clash-splinter-the-european-union/part-of-the-blame-game-in-a-financial-crisis
9. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/05/lehman-brothers-banks-recession
10. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0727_debt_debate_galston.aspx
11. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,692320,00.html
Is China the new crony capitalist of the East?
1. http://blogs.reuters.com/columns/2011/05/11/the-china-files-part-3-crony-capitalism/
2. http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/09/crony-capitalism-is-alive-and-well-in-china/
3. http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2005_spring/08_hui.html
4. http://www.yiddelenews.com/?p=11644
5. http://seekingalpha.com/article/177836-china-s-crony-capitalism
6. http://c4ss.org/content/5828
7. http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_road_ahead_for_capitalism_in_China_1782
Democracy is more theoretical, practically it spells disaster
1. http://www.bongbuzz.net/india-democracy/
2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBN2n2k-LI
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXaMz8QnrM
4. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/democracy-doesnt-exist-it-is-made
5. http://tomstream.blogspot.com/2011/04/mckinney-says-democracy-doesnt-exist.html
6. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2534093/posts
7. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627581.400-electoral-dysfunction-why-democracy-is-always-unfair.html
8. http://forum.thatfatatheist.com/topic/9108275/1/
9. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigideas/stories/2011/3229107.htm
10. http://www.electionblackout.com/political-science-doesnt-exist-and-neither-do
11. http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/200506--.htm
12. http://blog.independent.org/2009/10/27/democracys-most-critical-defect/
13. http://www.independent.co.ug/column/opinion/3269-is-electoral-democracy-bad-for-africa-
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