The existing body of work on suicide has characterised it as a choice opted by an individual who is neurologically disturbed. Adam Smith himself has supported this notion in his book ‘Theory of Moral Sentiment’. However David Hume in his treatise ‘Of Suicide’ has described it as a...

Water intensive manufacturing enterprises implicates a specific modality of human-nature relations, in which resources are "extracted" from nature to meet the demands of humans and the effluents (wastewater) and wastes produced in this process are ‘dumped’ back into nature (sea, river,...

The thought that average income may be an important influential parameter driving the economic development process is intriguing. Economic development is a multifaceted process driven by multitude of factors. Samuel H Preston, in his classic paper titled “The changing relation between...

The thought that average income may be an influential parameter driving the economic development process is intriguing. Economic development is a multifaceted process driven by a multitude of factors. One important parameter to judge economic development is life expectancy. This paper explores...