Hammad Siddiqi is an economist. He is associated with the department of economics at Lahore University of Management Sciences. Most of his time is spent on serious academic writings for fellow economists. However, at times, he writes for general audience with an objective of raising their interest in economics. He is an economic imperialist at heart, believing that economics is a study of how people make decisions, be they as serious as launching a nuclear strike or as trivial as the decision of leaving the toilet seat down.