Welcome to The Examined Week,\u00a0 a collection of\u00a0reading matter published on the web in the past week*, published every Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Dilip D’Souza writes:<\/a><\/p>\n In other words, what I hope this judgement sheds light on is the whole sickening culture of police “encounters”, and the widespread societal approval for them. Dreaded gangsters or not, the police cannot be allowed to shoot them down, and cannot be allowed to get away with shooting them down. But once we do allow them to do those things, we had better be prepared for murders like on that day in 1997: murders of perfectly ordinary folks like you and me.<\/p>\n Yes, it could have been you in that car that day. Because of Justice Kumar, there’s just that much less chance that it might be you, bullet-ridden dead in another car, tomorrow. Think of it like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Economist calls for <\/a>flexible labour laws in India:<\/p>\n This partly explains why most firms are so small: 87% of employment in Indian manufacturing is in firms with fewer than ten employees, compared with only 5% in China. Small firms cannot reap economies of scale or exploit the latest technology, and so suffer from lower productivity than big firms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Andy Mukherjee writes on <\/a>\u00a0the joke that the NREGS is. You have of course already read Amit Varma<\/a> on the same subject.<\/p>\n Ajay Shah writes that it is not that the\u00a0Rupee is appreciating, but that the dollar is depreciating<\/a> – \u00a0 an important distinction. He also abuses the RBI.<\/p>\n The mysterious and anonymous blogger Indian maverick analyses<\/a> the failure of the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n Niranjan\u00a0Rajadhyaksha writes <\/a>\u00a0about Radiohead’s voluntary pricing model and what it means. On that note, check out the Marginal Revolution poll<\/a> about what readers paid. It also turns out<\/a> that more people pirate it than download it for free.<\/p>\n Tyler Cowen looks at<\/a> a paper that investigates whether the caste system was economically efficient.<\/p>\n Sandeep surveys\u00a0<\/a> Rama in Tamil tradition.<\/p>\n Megan McArdle, the smartest woman alive, writes about the theory and practice.<\/a>\u00a0She also has two posts [1<\/a>], [2<\/a>] on the implications of\u00a0 the disappearing family.<\/p>\n