Senthuran Bhuvanendra
sen-b.bsky.social
Senthuran Bhuvanendra
@sen-b.bsky.social
Former economist, trying to reflect not-just-philosophically, in writing and discussion, on how to defend and expand our democratic capacities to attend, imagine, organise in the face of crisis. Including through music and art.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Why do people feel worse even as their countries grow richer?

In an age of populism, we need to ask what policy misses when it focuses solely on growth.

A thread on our paper: Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? 👇
📄 documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
Is There an Underside to Economic Growth ? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia
This paper sheds light on a Malaysian paradox that may have lessons for the rest of the world. Despite high gross domestic product growth with concurrent sharp reductions .
documents.worldbank.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM