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Onion Prices and Battle of State of Being Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce   Delhi School of Economics. ssvikrampratap@gmail.com   The phrase state of being is highly influential and insightful in happiness literature. The understanding of doing, having, becoming and being, describes & resolve the enigma of deeply entrenched and ambiguous notion of happiness of people. It squeezes the long-lasting intellectual battles across disciplines over nature of happiness as; feeling or emotion or pleasure or collection of pleasures or satisfaction or satisfaction, pleasure and happiness are identical or state of consciousness or used for the expression of; feeling, mood, behavior, attitude, and life.   Happiness is nothing but state of being- happy, comfortable, healthy and as many states of consciousness as possible. It is hugely affected with surroundings of people. Thus, state of being is the outcome of complex int...

2019 Economic Science Nobel for Humankind Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi school of Economics ssvikrampratap@gmail.com Over the last two decades, the power of economic growth has resulted into many noticeable changes in favor of humankind. The standards of living have significantly improved almost everywhere in the world. The economic well-being, measured by GDP per capita, doubled in the poor countries. Child mortality have halved relative to 1990s, proportion of children attending school has increased from 56 percent to 80 percent globally, people having low human development fell from 3 billion to 926 million or from 60 percent of world population to 12 percent of population, people having high and very high human development rise from 1.3 billion to 3.8 billion or from 24 percent of global population to 51 per cent of population. Despite this progress, the gigantic challenges of humankind still remain intact. More t...