Stories from Abbas Moosvi
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Identity politics and its discontents
The fixation around ‘lived experiences’ today, is in many ways, a form of egotism
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Therapy Industrial Complex
‘Mental health crisis’ represents a symptom: the underlying ‘disease’ is an economic system designed to exploit
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Climate justice and reparations overdue
Pakistanis are paying the cost for climate change despite little to no share in its responsibility
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Free markets are a fiction
The working classes do not have a ‘free choice’ in taking up and leaving jobs
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Illusory Independence
The prospect of transitioning into a rentier economy presented itself as a lucrative means to maximise personal gains
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Theatre of politics
Since its inception, Pakistan has been characterised, to be undergoing a ‘delicate turn’
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Epidemic of nonsense work
Key institutions will be populated by individuals play-acting at the workplace year after year
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Gimmickry of neoclassical economics
At the heart of neoclassical economic theory is its fundamental unit of analysis, the rational actor
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A Letter to the Left
In Pakistan, the religious right is a force to be reckoned with — partially because it’s been propped up by the angels
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Of elites, by elites, for elites
Elites in Pakistan are not incompetent, they are savvy in navigating a complex political arena to ensure maximal gains