Comments on: Urban Indians Love Free Markets & Free Trade http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/ Issues & insights Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:23:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Nitin http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-229395 Nitin Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:43:32 +0000 http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-229395 <em>Mint</em> has an <a href="http://www.livemint.com/2007/10/09005501/New-reality.html" rel="nofollow">editorial</a> on this; Btw, a friend pointed out that we should see this in context with the "Myth of the Rational Voter". Mint has an editorial on this;

Btw, a friend pointed out that we should see this in context with the “Myth of the Rational Voter”.

]]> By: Prashant http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-229073 Prashant Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:46:54 +0000 http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-229073 The findings sound encouraging to a semi-libertarian like me. However, I\'m a tad suspicious of surveys in India, given the difficulty of getting a truly representative sample. A question (redux) for someone with actual market research experience in India: what will it take to get a true, representative sample in India given the size of the universe and perhaps even more importantly, the diversity -- language/ economics/ rural-urban/ and 501 other differences. For instance, here\'s a total puff piece masquerading as news http://indianeconomy.org/2005/09/26/a-million-mutinies-now/ The findings sound encouraging to a semi-libertarian like me. However, I\’m a tad suspicious of surveys in India, given the difficulty of getting a truly representative sample.

A question (redux) for someone with actual market research experience in India: what will it take to get a true, representative sample in India given the size of the universe and perhaps even more importantly, the diversity — language/ economics/ rural-urban/ and 501 other differences.

For instance, here\’s a total puff piece masquerading as news
http://indianeconomy.org/2005/09/26/a-million-mutinies-now/

]]> By: Dweep http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-228873 Dweep Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:25:53 +0000 http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-228873 On the face of it, this frankly, is hardly a surprise - as evidence just look at the malls sprouting up everywhere. One does wonder, though, just how representative this sample of 2000 was. It doesn't have to be a free market fundamentalist conspiracy to be still overblown or misleading. On the face of it, this frankly, is hardly a surprise - as evidence just look at the malls sprouting up everywhere. One does wonder, though, just how representative this sample of 2000 was. It doesn’t have to be a free market fundamentalist conspiracy to be still overblown or misleading.

]]> By: Asif Rajani http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-227875 Asif Rajani Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:56:41 +0000 http://indianeconomy.org/2007/10/05/urban-indians-love-free-markets-free-trade/#comment-227875 I must say, as a external observer of Indian recent progress, that the results of this survey are not very surprising. Indians, generally speaking, are very liberals when it comes to their own economic well-being. It is our nature and it was hidden by years. I must say, as a external observer of Indian recent progress, that the results of this survey are not very surprising. Indians, generally speaking, are very liberals when it comes to their own economic well-being. It is our nature and it was hidden by years.

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