Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar is an Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge and a visiting faculty member at Harvard University. She is currently on academic leave from Cambridge and holds a Fellowship at Stanford University.

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Resolving Das Adam Smith Problem might be the moral reset humanity needs

As the 250th anniversary of *The Wealth of Nations* nears, scholars urge a return to Smith's moral philosophy to reconcile ethics with economics

Updated On: 07 Nov 2025 | 10:56 PM IST

Pope Francis and the soul of economics: Rethinking global priorities

One of the more surprising - and often missed - aspects of Francis' 12-year papacy was his emergence as an incisive economic visionary, urging the world to place moral values above markets and metric

Updated On: 03 May 2025 | 12:06 AM IST

Global crises demand a new governance model beyond nation-states

Our international institutions simply are not designed to address systemic issues indifferent to national borders

Updated On: 14 Mar 2025 | 10:59 PM IST

What is MAGAnomics? The economics behind Trump's 'America First'

A reckoning is in order, not just with Trumpism but with the assumptions that made it possible in the first place

Updated On: 15 Feb 2025 | 12:17 AM IST

Covid's lessons ignored: The world risks repeating past mistakes

The vaccines allowed Covid to be treated as an aberration, but we must not forget what it really was: A preview of the kind of planetary challenges that await us

Updated On: 03 Jan 2025 | 10:41 PM IST

Insights and social preferences: What microfinance can teach economists

Mainstream economics has largely dismissed the insights from microfinance as folksy, feel-good anecdotes

Updated On: 30 Aug 2024 | 11:47 PM IST

Haunted by the Washington Consensus

The Washington Consensus never had any time for such questions, and its ghost continues to impede the emergence of a new development paradigm based on cultural contexts and human cognition

Updated On: 08 Jun 2024 | 12:01 AM IST

The psychologist who humanised economics

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's first major contribution was his and Tversky's groundbreaking 1974 study on judgment and uncertainty

Updated On: 17 May 2024 | 10:44 PM IST