I find it very draining to watch Mad Men for very similar reasons. I cannot imagine a time when men could be so thoughtless, openly sexist, and patronizing. Or women so convinced that a comfortable life could only be achieved by being married to a wealthy man, or that leveraging their sexuality could be a sustainable way to advance one’s career. It’s hard to determine for me whether the show is scripted to accurately reflect life then, or so heavy-handed for ratings only.

Erroneous!

Gary Becker specifically says (page 3 of his nobel lecture) that competition works only when the minority is not a small percentage of the majority, and thus exempts himself from having to explain the situation in America, and instead focuses on South Africa where the number of blacks exceeded the number of whites by 4-5x. He further goes on to say that there is no reason to believe that competition will eliminate discrimination in the long run.

A literature has developed on whether discrimination in the marketplace due to prejudice disappears in the long run. Whether employers who do not want to discriminate will eventually compete away all discriminating employers depends not only on the distribution of tastes for discrimination among potential employers, but critically also on the nature of firm production functions. Of greater significance empirically is the long run discrimination by employees and customers, who are far more important sources of market discrimination than employers. There is no reason to expect discrimination by these groups to be competed away in the long run unless it is possible to have enough efficient segregated firms and effectively segregated markets for goods.

that’s why i always pad my condoms…….it has absolutely nothing to do with enhancing size

The head of marketing for Reebok was Muktesh Pant reporting into the Chairman. a desi making it in a pure sporting industry – not common.

Add Shumeet Banerji – CEO of Booz & Company to that list

I guess it is second banana homage day today!

I’ll take your word on that, manju.