The Seeds of Trouble and the Way Forward
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on India, a situation which was exacerbated by the central government’s hastily...
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- Mar 21, 2019
- 6 min
The Animal Spirits of Inequality: Why Relative Earnings Matter
“Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.” – John Stuart Mill Income inequality: Sophomoric idea to some, grave...
- Mar 17, 2019
- 5 min
Tax Me Justly
In a world with increasing within-country inequality and a backlash for democracy, what should be the new policy to rally progressive...
- Aug 30, 2018
- 7 min
Limelight | Avinash Dixit: The rest of WTO should expel the U.S. and preserve order among the remain
An economist of the highest pedigree, Prof. Avinash Dixit is currently the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics at...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 6 min
A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi | P. Sainath
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian. It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 6 min
Leaving farms in search of jobs that don’t exist | Parth M.N.
Till the age of 20, Angad Salunkhe held on to hope. Then it gave way to anxiety. A few years later, frustration and dejection took over –...
- Jun 5, 2018
- 6 min
Limelight | Johanna Thoma: The main point of philosophy is to get people to think better – In
Johanna Thoma is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics....
- May 11, 2018
- 3 min
Good enough to vote, not enough for Aadhaar | Puja Awasthi
“If my fingers are good to vote, why are they not enough for an Aadhaar card?” asks Parwati Devi, 51, holding up her Electors Photo...
- Apr 15, 2018
- 3 min
Steel Magnolias: US trade tariffs on steel and impact on India | Bornali Bhandari
Last month the United States President Donald Tump imposed 25% tariffs on steel imports into the county, citing concerns about the...
- Feb 24, 2018
- 5 min
After Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation, is India headed towards Protectionism? | Sunanda
Ever since India opened up its economy in 1991, it has aspired to achieve the status of a developed nation. It has been more than 25...
- Feb 17, 2018
- 3 min
Uncovering the PNB fraud: India’s latest banking scandal | Surya Suresh
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018, India’s banking sector was jolted by its latest scandal as Punjab National Bank, India’s second-largest...
- Feb 6, 2018
- 6 min
Corruption: Where We Don’t Like Folks Getting Along Too Well | Lalit Panda
Back in 1968, the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal noted that corruption was “almost taboo as a research topic” in economics and planning....
- Nov 30, 2017
- 8 min
The Left, The Right and The Ugly: The Force Awakens | Sujoy Sur
Sujoy Sur This article is the first part of a series on the Indian left. Li, Lau and Liu committed suicide by jumping off a building in...
- Jul 14, 2017
- 7 min
Things You Need to Hide: A List | Lalit Panda
Lalit Panda Despite what you might have thought, economics does care about your personal information. It’s difficult to write about...
- May 17, 2017
- 5 min
NITI Aayog & the Unpredictable Human Mind| Vishal Sinha
Vishal Sinha Economics has always been concerned with the motivations behind human behaviour. It is believed that human behaviour is...
- Apr 7, 2017
- 3 min
The Lifecycle Of a Speculative Bubble | Shreshtha Mishra
Shreshtha Mishra “Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of the crowd, he at once becomes a...
- Mar 24, 2017
- 4 min
The Indian Mother and Stable Jobs | Vishal Sinha
Vishal Sinha On 20th March 2017, Rajya Sabha approved the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill 2016. The iconic bill intends to alleviate...
- Mar 10, 2017
- 5 min
On the Post-Autistic Economics Movement: An introduction| Shantanu Singh
Shantanu Singh “We, economics students of the world, declare ourselves to be generally dissatisfied with the teaching that we receive.” –...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 5 min
The Social Network, the Economic Network and Everything in Between| Lalit Panda
Lalit Panda An elucidative look at what it means for market competitors to be like markets in themselves. An old and enduring premise at...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 4 min
The 2017 Budget: India’s Shift to a Market Economy| Vishal Sinha & Vamsi Karedla
Vishal Sinha & Vamsi Karedla Come 1st of February and the nation awaits to listen to what he government has in store for us, a bunch of...
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