Financial or Multi-Dimensional Crisis?

Published October 16, 2010 | By Bman

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estimated that about 35 million Americans do not know where their next meal would come from! Not that there is not enough food to provide for the hungry people of the world – it is just that they do not qualify for the food as they are not part of the ‘demand’ to consume the available ‘supply’ (of food)!

Perhaps from such an angle, the much internationally-acclaimed but locally-criticised (in India) Hollywood-Bollywood film Slumdog Millionaire is a soft critique of the mainstream economics and celebration (and to a good extent, romanticism) of the spirit of poor people who are always in the state of ‘permanent crisis’ but creatively trying to deal with it. Of course it does not offer a solution as much as a dream or fantasy.

The Periodic Crisis

For those who have been gainfully employed, the middle classes, entrepreneurs, financial

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