The Kerala Paradox
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How is it that Kerala has had such good social indicators? What is going on behind the data here?
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I have never studied economics before. The unease I have felt about economic analysis, as presented in these lectures, culminated in the title of this talk. The paradox only exists because the wrong questions are being asked. As Ronald Coase recently wrote (Harvard Business Review Nov. 20 2012) "It is suicidal for the field (of economics) to slide into a hard science of choice, ignoring the influences of society, history, culture and politics on the working of the economy." Choice was defined as ever more versions of price and demand curves.
I think most of the credit goes to Matriarchy system in Kerala. Matriarchy system-thus equal education to both men and women. We have phrases like 'A girl gets education and Progress happens' or 'As the woman gets education, she educates her whole family'. Goa and North-Eastern states also have majority of Christan population but they haven't showed progress like Kerala.