Week’s reading Round-up - 1

Here are some of the things I’ve been reading this week, which might be of interest to our readers:

a)      Kaushik  Basu’s  review of economist Arvind Virmani’s works

b)      ‘Suddenly Susan’, a nice piece on author Sigrid Nunez’s experiences when she lived in with Susan Sontag’s son, sharing an apartment in New York with the legendary literary critic.

c)       An insightful essay, that reviews four books on the last wall street crisis, by Jonathan Kirshner. The author also describes why we can soon expect the next crisis. And while on the financial crisis, Michael Hardt argues for ‘reclaiming the common in communism’.

d)      A report on the conditions in one of China’s largest electronic gadget manufacturing firm, that contains this chilling paragraph:

The nets went up in May, after the 11th jumper in less than a year died here. They carried a message: You can throw yourself off any building you like, as long as it isn’t one of these. And they seem to have worked. Since they were installed, the suicide rate has slowed to a trickle.

e)      Lastly, Tehelka has a nice pictorial summary of the 2G scam.