Gujarati Grandmother's Financial Wisdom Beats Modern Economics

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A Mumbai consultant discovers how his grandmother's simple habits-hiding coins in dal containers and meticulous penny-pinching-contain sophisticated behavioral economics principles that modern experts are just beginning to understand.

Gujarati Grandmother's Financial Wisdom Beats Modern Economics

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