PROLOGUE
John Maynard Keynes, the well known British Economist, called economics an ‘apparatus of the mind’ implying that it was a tool you could use to analyse what goes on in the world and how we can, as Sylvia Nasar wrote in her book ‘Grand Pursuit’, ‘[make] the most of its possibilities’. Wedded as we are to taking that economics lens to the everyday world here at this blog, I could not help but notice a few economics themes and lessons during my movie outing last week. I was out watching Neeraj Pandey’s biopic of MS Dhoni, M S Dhoni – The Untold Story, which while overlong and slightly uneven for the most parts [I reviewed the movie here], did raise some fascinating economics questions. The story is straightforward and well known – a boy who reluctantly took up cricket as a kid, while growing up in a relatively…
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