Nepozin, You can not keep politics and economics separate. What drives a society largely is polical economics. Present problem in Nepal is not due to mixing of politics and economics, rather it is due to lack of connectedness between economics and politics. Because bad-economics and bad-politics do not get connected. Yet, no need to be pessimistic, system of political-economy is self-organizing in nature and Nepal will one day come out of the current mess. nispaksha