Comments on: Radio Economics: A Podcast of Economists

By: Guru Gulab Khatri

Guru Gulab Khatri — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:36:09 +0000

I personally am not in the outsourcing industry. I donâ€™t outsource, I donâ€™t hire, I donâ€™t fire,

Well didnt you admit to Reese that your film about outsourcing was outsourced.
My gripe with your interview has already been stated to which you did really respond and are engaging in a political style jumping around.
It simply revolves around statements you made.
Starting with your defination of outsourcing that you gave at the start of the program.
Reese had asked you that has your opinion has changed regarding the topic, to which you replied as above.
You incorrectly stated statistics regarding animation industry.
That is a dangerous thing to do.
you could have instead said i dont know statistics regarding animation in india.
Which you did not do!

Regarding Reese’s offer i’d decline
b/c its giving publicity to your work which seems nothing but confused to me.
Second reason being outsourcing service or tech jobs to india as having some amazing benifit to indian economy is something that i am not sold on. ie Ive never bought the myth that india is an IT or knowledge based superpower. Nor do i buy that outsourcing will solve indias economic woes.
nor do i buy the brouhaha generated by those who thinks a its hurt US economy.
Therefore i dont think giving a phenomina which is inconsequential in the longrun much weight is something i’d do.
My reason for attacking your views were b/c they were confused in a dangerous way.
you were perpetuating nonsense on greedy corporate america(you again tried to do it in this post by wording a topic like ’slick
cnbc segment where white collared exec gives a soothing talk crap).
PS i live in US and work in tech industry.

By: Navin

Navin — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:57:25 +0000

Krishnan,

I appreciate you confessing that you don’t have a stance on Outsourcing.

Does your film atleast have a stance ? or is it just a mere medley ?

By: Claus Vistesen

Claus Vistesen — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:03:00 +0000

A good link … going to mt bloglines swiftly!

By: Guru Gulab Khatri

Guru Gulab Khatri — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:13:58 +0000

The server snipped the bottom part!
It is a continuation of the last post

There were factual errors in your interview. You had stated that Indian animation accounts 20% of world animation.
You said global animation industry is about 50 to 60 billion and 20% of animation/EPO is outsourced to India.
That would be 10billion flowing that is not true the size of the Indian share is radically changed view is confused.

By: Sahil

Sahil — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:24:37 +0000

Excellent resource! Much appreciated. Please let me know about any other econ-or-not podcasts to which you subscribe.

By: deep

deep — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:28:43 +0000

Thanks for this. Nice. My advisor once said – Krugman knows everything about everything!

By: Guru Gulab Khatri

Guru Gulab Khatri — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:56:07 +0000

i heard your on inteview radio economics a while back there werent more details on risc,
nor were you probed more on your buddhist studies by mr reese….
also i had heard a confused indian dude who made a doccumentary on outsourcing.
His level of confusion about topics was amazing. As per him it was ok for a small filmmaker to outsource but not a large company to do so.
Strange logic!

Any ways back to deesha is this a new interview or the same?