Cattle lines are drawn: cows in India
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Cows are venerated in India, but precisely how intensely often depends on politics. And being venerated does not necessarily yield a pleasant life for the creatures. Economists rarely consider how policies will affect birth rates and the yet-to-be-born; we examine the thorny topic of “population ethics”. And foreign-language phrasebooks may be in decline but they maintain huge historical value.
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| 1:01.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.2 | In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:05.9 | And in New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 1:08.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.0 | There's a population-sized whole in much of economics, a failure to consider the effects of policies on people who aren't yet born. |
| 1:24.1 | We examine a thorny philosophy problem that tries to value the lives that economists have largely overlooked. |
| 1:30.9 | And dusty old foreign language phrase books are of great use to historians. |
| 1:35.8 | They reveal how their authors and readers thought about the world, though some of their phrase choices can be bizarre. |
| 1:42.7 | Excuse me, how long have you had that goiter? |
| 1:45.0 | But first. In April 2014, Narendra Modi was running to be Prime Minister of India. |
| 2:06.0 | He did as candidates do and made a speech at a rally. |
| 2:12.5 | In it, he warned of a pink revolution, |
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