Kwame Owino
@IEAKwame
Libertarian at a Kenyan Think Tank trying to make sense by asking: Why are we here?
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10 Excellent Short Econ Books (<300 pages)
1) The Haves and the Have Nots - Branko Milanovic (272 pages)
Terrific, accessible short intro to inequality and the economic ideas around it, presented with memorable vignettes such as 'who was the richest person ever?' Definitely recommend
Children at Auschwitz, in a still from the Soviet film of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 1945.
Colour by Tom Marshall
Kwame Owino Intention (or emotion) is/should not be the basis of judging public policy (the emphasis is mine). Expecting intention or emotion to deliver without a well thought out public policy is like waiting for Godot.
Foreign market power is rife in determining Argentina’s import prices, as revealed by firm level responses to widespread import licenses, from David Atkin, Joaquin Blaum, Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, and Augusto Ospital nber.org/papers/w32037
In 1992 when the west celebrated 500 years since Columbus reached America, the Guatemalan indigenous woman Rigoberta Menchú Tum received the #NobelPeacePrize , highlighting that the European discovery of America entailed the extermination and suppression of indigenous people.
19 January 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Gilbert Gluck, was born in Paris.
On 23 August 1942 he arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.