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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Another economist studies the terror landscape</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/11/15/another-economist-studies-the-terror-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bali]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economist]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eli Berman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muqtada al-Sadr]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Radical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[religious]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[September 2001]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[study]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It began in September 2001. It&#8217;s eight years since. But has the US-driven &#8220;global war on terrorism&#8221; made the world a safer place? The US aside, the short answer that anyone reading newspapers or watching news channels the world over knows is: No. Ask the afflicted &#8212; count the deaths in Mumbai, Madrid, London, Bali, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irish economy &#8212; and its beautiful people</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/11/12/the-irish-economy-and-its-beautiful-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/11/12/the-irish-economy-and-its-beautiful-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dublin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[irish economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[market]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a rather long piece on the Irish economy last week. Titled Desperate in Dublin, it looked at the impact of the global slowdown, banker-builder greed and opportunistic politicians through the eyes of data as well as people. Today, I want to show you the beautiful people of Ireland &#8212; strikers, musicians, beggars. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence at the Zurich airport</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/11/01/silence-at-the-zurich-airport/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/11/01/silence-at-the-zurich-airport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Dublin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[globalisation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hindustan Times Leadership Summit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[modern civilisation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rajiv Bajaj]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zurich airport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Browsing through the various shops of life that the sculpted modern civilisation presents every day &#8212; school, work, conference, columns, stories, managing, meeting and so on &#8212; finding peace has become elusive.
So elusive, in fact, that the business of providing it through books, CDs and other mediums run by self-appointed gurus has become a full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting rock…19 years later</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/10/25/revisiting-rock%e2%80%a619-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/10/25/revisiting-rock%e2%80%a619-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[advaita]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Farhan Akhtar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fusion rock]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[journalism school]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Siri Fort auditorium]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[young band]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In October 1990, as part of a young band, we gave our last rock concert at Siri Fort auditorium in New Delhi. We didn&#8217;t know that then, of course, and were planning a life of music. But within no time, pressures of subsistence and the financial insecurity around music pushed down hard and within months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A salute to our new leaders &#8212; our children</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/10/19/a-salute-to-our-new-leaders-our-children/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/10/19/a-salute-to-our-new-leaders-our-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[celebrations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[crackers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[diwali]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[generation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hindustantimes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lakshmi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do celebrations mean noise? What is this need in the urban Indian that makes him want to show that he&#8217;s having a good time? Can a good time be had in silence?
These are questions I asked myself when I saw grown ups in a crude competition to burst the noisiest firecrackers. And while I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the state became a market participant</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/10/11/how-the-state-became-a-market-participant/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/10/11/how-the-state-became-a-market-participant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[market]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[participant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Political investments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[state enterpreneurism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson School of Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Behold, a new era of state enterpreneurism. Labour pains have begun but even before the baby has been born, a new paper dissects an emerging phenomenon that’s been staring us in the face ever since September 15, when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the world fell of an economic cliff. Exploring the typology of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh Summit score falls to 5.3 out of 10</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/27/pittsburgh-summit-score-falls-to-53-out-of-10/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/27/pittsburgh-summit-score-falls-to-53-out-of-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial Stability Board]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FSB]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leaders' Statement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Summit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Summit of the Group of 20]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And eight core values, 10 broad directions, 50 semi-specifics, 67 clauses of intent, 23 pages and 9,254 words later, what we have from the world&#8217;s biggest ever clubbing exercise of the world&#8217;s 19 most powerful countries and EU is a score of 5.3 out of 10. This score at the Pittsburgh Summit of the Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t end this violence</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/20/cant-end-this-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/20/cant-end-this-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christians]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clandestine acts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crusades]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mahabharata]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[non-violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[promotion of violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Randall Collins]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[responsibility]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are getting used to violence and, as a result, it is becoming a blind spot of the world around us. We wake up with a shock when we experience it. And I&#8217;m not merely talking about news and media.
Violence today hides behind non-violence. That is, rarely do we go around and get involved with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 papers on the ongoing crisis you must read</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/13/10-papers-on-the-ongoing-crisis-you-must-read/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/13/10-papers-on-the-ongoing-crisis-you-must-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carmen M. Reinhart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Nordberg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economic crises]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economic slowdown]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[financial crises]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[French President Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[G 20]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[G20 London]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gary B. Gorton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[globalisation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ioannis Glinavos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jared Harris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth S. Rogoff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lehman’s bankruptcy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter L. Swan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Deeg Mary A. O’Sullivan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago the world fell of a cliff. Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy was only the last straw in the long-drawn credit crisis that began a few years earlier. In this post, I present some papers that have analysed this crisis and ushered in a new world order. What is this new world order?
“It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A primer for change agents</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/06/a-primer-for-change-agents/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/2009/09/06/a-primer-for-change-agents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gautam Chikermane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[activists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[advocates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Change-the-world]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[communitarian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[individualistic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leaders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[primer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[religious]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sarbanes-Oxley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[secular]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swarup Committee report Roger L Conner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[transformers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/cutting-the-edge/?p=300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Change-the-world junkies have a new primer at hand. Also known as activists, entrepreneurs, leaders, transformers, advocates, these are a group of people who invariably are wedded to the idea of bringing change.
&#8220;Whether liberal or conservative, religious or secular, individualistic or communitarian, these are the thinkers, organisers, agitators, doers, dreamers and professional troublemakers who keep America [...]]]></description>
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