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Aligning to the Left, Right and Center

For a layman like me the choosing between the left, right and center of politics and economics has been a paradox. In the recent times, when observing to the global economics I began to get a sense that there is no one idea that can thrive throughout the world. Luckily, when I got to listen to the recent interviews of one of the Noble Laureate for economics 2019 'Abhijit Banerjee' who was objective in sharing his views on issues based on their complexity, some thoughts crossed over my mind which I am sharing here. It is always easy to term a person or a group's view as left, right or center in stillness. When we consider the political or economic issues in motion, the left, right or center of it varies dynamically. So a person can be leftist on one issue, centrist on the other and rightist on another. When the policy makers believe that they are in motion and not static, they can invariably choose their options based on the dynamics of the situation. Especially, fo