I work as an economist at Netcore Solutions in Mumbai.
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If you are in the mood for some thought-provoking hope-giving reading this weekend, I recommend Steven Pinker’s essay “The History of Violence“:
In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
[Hat tip: Yuvaraj.]
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Atanu,
In fact I had chanced upon Pinkers talk on ‘TED TALK’ site, but some how cant seemto find it now : (
Anyway, I have also blogged about Pinkers thesis on diminishing violence in the world here, earlier-
http://worldofindia.blogspot.com/2007/04/glass-is-half-empty.html