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...visitors some days. (At one stand, The Hindu newspaper noted with amazement, punters can buy not only a pair of bargain-priced Chinese jeans, but also the Chinese machinery that makes them.) Indian newspapers are talking up the idea of an emerging "Chindia" - a phrase coined by Indian economist Jairam Ramesh - that acts as a counterbalance to traditional powers Europe and the U.S. And while the government still focuses on their differences - theirs is a democracy, Indian officials note, where laws are debated and voted on rather than pushed through by an all-powerful one-party state - it also looks...
...open up the economy. Anticipating an eventual onslaught from outsiders, the country's more far-sighted industrialists decided to modernize their operations. As a result, the most efficient businesses were able to reap outsized profits as India's economic growth began to accelerate, explains Delphine Cavalier, a Paris-based economist at BNP Paribas, which has advised Indian companies on M&A activity in Europe. "Today, with competition now mounting in India, those same groups are seeking to protect that profitability by taking their activity abroad, knowing that continued economic growth in India will provide a strong base for years...
...look to the state for either rights or responsibilities but to look to themselves for their strength, and then made his case with numbers. He took on Marxism and with potent logic proved that it did not work. He was perhaps the most impressive combination of mathematician, economist and caped crusader there has ever been...
...despondent, but I also realized you cannot kill Friedman's exaltation of human liberty--not with a gun, not with a tank, not with terrorism--not even with heart disease. His ideas and faith in the human spirit are as implanted in civilization as those of any benevolent economist and social revolutionary since his idol Adam Smith, whom he so worthily followed...
...Stein is a writer, an actor and an economist...