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Research versus teaching
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Just like burgers and big cars, the American system of ‘publish or perish’ is slowly engulfing the world and, in the process, meeting with resistance from some quarters.
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The other imbalance
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Forget about global financial imbalances — the G8, the IMF, China, the US, somebody will figure out something someday.
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Are speculators evil?
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Is speculation good or bad?
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Okonomos: The 'Olympic effect'
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Hosting the Olympics is associated with a permanent and positive rise of 30 per cent in exports.
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The global crisis debate
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Given how most economists failed to predict the crisis, getting the view of non-economists is probably a good idea.
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The missing link
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| | January 23, 2009, 00:34 IST |
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The link between risk-taking and monetary policy is vital to avoid financial crises of the type we’re seeing.
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Soft targets
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A paper analyses, from an economist’s viewpoint, why some people agree to blow themselves up for a cause.
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Will oil boil again?
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The fine demand-supply balance suggests it will and falling Saudi output doesn't help either.
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SUMITA KALE: Spiting development
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Using spite to explain development is a useful tool — it also explains a lot of upper caste actions in India.
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From Wall Street to Main Street
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Often one comes across a research paper that seems to state the obvious and yet makes for fascinating reading.
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Why corruption persists
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When all politicians care about is their future rents, both corrupt and honest ones have an incentive to block reform.
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Sex education in schools
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While state governments are rapidly hitting the headlines for banning sex education in schools, the raging controversy raises issues that go way beyond the actual subject.
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Salt and free choice
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In February, the Supreme Court admitted a PIL petition opposing the central government ban on the sale of non-iodised salt in the country.
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Education and women
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Discrimination against women takes many forms and the problems begin before birth.
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Wasted education
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The basic aim of education is to improve the prospects of ones livelihood, or so we have been brought up to believe.
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