
Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion in India
Ideas of India
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Club Goods - The Sacrifice and Stigmas
In a society where you already have segregation, and there is already a different kind of social way of who is included and who is excluded. What does that mean for competition? Is it actually easy tocompete? Or is most of it assigned by birth? And within each cast you see a little bit of competition. So i think that those ideas that come from the club goods literature, the sacrifice and the stigmas are also relevant in the indian context as well.
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