QUIZZARD OF OZ

"A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave".

Ibsen

Hey folks, lets QUIZ again, with ur permissions. Nowadays so many assignments needs to be done, but there has been a spurt in movie watching, by me.

The "Hangover" is simply good. It's been quite a while that I laugh so much while watching a movie. "Gone Baby Gone" was quite touching...innocent children, I longed for that stage back. "Lost in Translation" proves that the magic of Francis Ford Coppola will be carried forward by his daughter Sofia Ford Coppola. "My Left Foot" will remain one of my favorite movie of all time, now. Thanks to the unimaginable performance by Daniel Day Lewis as the handicapped Christy Brown. A Citizen Kane rating from me.

All the Best for your ASSIGNMENTS, and Happy Independence Day, if I didnt post a new one for Independence Day.

1) “la propriété, c'est le vol!”

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in his “What is Property?” (1840), mentions this trademark statement which was very much in vogue during the heydays of the Utopian Socialists, and from which, it is believed, Karl Marx derived a lot on his theory of property. (No matter the controversy about the “philosophy of poverty” thing)

Give me the English translation.

2) Amartya Sen was to describe a person X, when he was asked to write a mini biography of himself by the Nobel Prize Committee, to be preserved in the Academy, in this way:

It was not long after Kenneth Arrow's path-breaking study of social choice, Social Choice and Individual Values, was published in New York in 1951, that my brilliant co-student X drew my attention to the book and to Arrow's stunning "impossibility theorem" (this must have been in the early months of 1952). X too was broadly attracted by the left, but also worried about political authoritarianism, and we discussed the implications of Arrow's demonstration that no non-dictatorial social choice mechanism may yield consistent social decisions. Did it really give any excuse for authoritarianism (of the left, or of the right)? I particularly remember one long afternoon in the College Street Coffee House, with X explaining his own reading of the ramifications of the formal results, sitting next to a window, with his deeply intelligent face glowing in the mild winter sun of Calcutta (a haunting memory that would invade me again and again when he died suddenly of a heart attack a few years ago).

Identify X. (Clue: Prof. Mohan Rao calls him: "the greatest Indian economist").

3) What is being parodied here?... (think of something recent)