Irrational

What is utility? A modern interpretation is mathematical: it is that which is maximized (subject to constraints). This is quite similar to the modern mathematical approach that believes in 'meaning is use' (a la Wittgenstein): a straight line is that which is the shortest distance between two points etc. In the same vein, rational behavior is that which is the outcome of having maximized utilities. 

From this perspective, suicide attackers for example, are fully rational. A lot of criticism of economics centered on the so-called 'failure to account for irrationality' feature, simply misses the point.

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मैंने कहा कि मुझे भूख नहीं है 

और तुम मान गयी 

माँ होती तो ना मानती 

...

I said I wasn't hungry 

And you acquiesced

If it were mom, she wouldn't have

करीब नहीं

Composer: Yo La Tengo, Album: Painful [1993]

Do you know how I feel

How I feel about you

Do you know this is real

How I feel around you

When I see you look at me

I'm not sure of anything

All I know is when you smile

I believe in everything

Do you know how I dream

How I dream about you

Do you know how I feel

Do you know...

Do you know how I feel

How I feel about you

Doesn't take much to tell

That I love, oh, I...

Everyone is here

But you're nowhere near

No you're nowhere near
No... nowhere near

...

तुम जानो ये कैसा लगे है

मुझे बारे में तुम्हारे

तुम जानो कि ये सच है

लगे कैसा मुझे इर्द गिर्द तुम्हारे 

मुझे ताकते तुम्हें देखूं जब

हो न निश्चय किसी का

मुस्कुराओ जब बस जानूं ये

यकीन हो चले सभी का 

तुम जानो कैसे देखूं सपने

सपने बारे में तुम्हारे

तुम जानो ये कैसा लगे है

तुम जानो ये...

तुम जानो ये कैसा लगे है

मुझे बारे में तुम्हारे

ज़ाहिर है सब कहना ये

कि मैं प्यार... ओह मैं 

हर कोई है यहीं 

 तुम बस करीब नहीं
हाँ तुम करीब नहीं

  हाँ... करीब नहीं 

...

Oldy be goldy

From 'Howrah Bridge' (1958), lyricist: Qamar Jalalabadi, composer: OP Nayyar

बाबू जी मैं चीन से आयी 

चीनी जैसा दिल लायी 

सिंगापुर का यौवन मेरा 

शंघाई की अंगड़ाई 

दिल पे रख ले हाथ ज़रा 

हो जाए ना पागल तू 

मेरा नाम चिन चिन चू 

चिन चिन चू बाबा चिन चिन चू 

रात चांदनी मैं और तू 

हेलो मिस्टर हाउ डू यू डू 

बा बा... बा बा...

Oh darling I came from China

My sweet heart jus' couldn't be finer

From Singapore does hail my youth

From Shanghai its yawn no minor

Keep 'em hands on to your heart

May you not go loony too

Name be mine Chin Chin Chu

Chin Chin Chu baba Chin Chin Chu

Night be moony me and you

Hello mister how do you do

Ba ba... ba ba...

...

Reading List: Jan 2020-Jan 2021

1. Gulag (Anne Applebaum)
2. Persepolis 2 (Marjane Satrapi)
3. In Service of the Republic (Vijay Kelkar, Ajay Shah)
4. A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K LeGuin)
5. The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) [reread]
6. The Tombs of Atanu (Ursula K LeGuin)
7. The Farthest Shore (Ursula K LeGuin)
8. Tehanu (Ursula K LeGuin)
9. Mao's Great Famine (Frank Dikotter)
10. Serotonin (Michel Houellebecq)
11. Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
12. What we talk about when we talk about love (Raymond Carver)
13. The Tragedy of Liberation (Frank Dikotter)
14. The Cultural Revolution (Frank Dikotter)
15. घाचर गोचर (विवेक शानभाग)
16. The Fatal Conceit (Friedrich Hayek)
17. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Lydia Davis)
18. Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman)
19. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
20. The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)
21. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
22. Iron Curtain (Anne Applebaum)
23. The Better Angels of Our Nature (Steven Pinker)
24. The Twenty-Seventh City (Jonathan Franzen)
25. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (David Foster Wallace)
26. The Undoing Project (Michael Lewis)
27. Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman)
28. After the Funeral (Agatha Christie)
29. The Mysterious Affairs At Styles (Agatha Christie)
30. The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie)
31. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
32. Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)
33. Mothsmoke (Mohsin Hamid)
34. Three Act Tragedy (Agatha Christie)
35. The Great Gtasby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
36. A Legacy of Spies (John leCarre)
37. ABC Murders (Agatha Christie)
38. Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
39. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) [reread]
40. Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stone (JK Rowling) [reread]
41. Sense and Sensibilities (Jane Austen)
42. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
43. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
44. Humiliated and Insulted (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) [reread]
45. Thirty Years That Shook Physics (George Gamow)
46. Look to Windward (Iain M Banks)