Nobel prize for Economics
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December 25, 2020, Friday
Meet Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, the mild-mannered sharp shooter
Banerjee tells Anjuli Bhargava he wants the world to have the right conversations before marching on in its battle against ...
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October 19, 2020, Monday
Auction of public resources and profit
Any sale must be designed to serve the common good, not to maximise revenues
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October 14, 2020, Wednesday
Economists are starting to think like engineers
No longer is economic theory merely a glorified way of using mathematics to tell allegories about the world- now it has practical ...
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October 13, 2020, Tuesday
Best of BS Opinion: Award for auctions, tech stocks are booming, and more
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
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December 25, 2019, Wednesday
Trade war: For countries like China, the free lunch is now history
Global trade will recover eventually but it is almost certain that no country will be allowed to 'game' the system to gain an ...
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October 25, 2019, Friday
Growth, income, poverty and the Nobel
There is good reason for caution in applying the results of randomised control trials across space and time
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October 24, 2019, Thursday
The discovery of dark matter
This could eventually lead to better understanding of places where life is most likely to exist
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October 20, 2019, Sunday
BJP's personal criticism is upsetting: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee
Goyal called Banerjee "totally Left leaning" and said "the people of India have rejected his thinking". Sinha said, "Those people ...
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October 15, 2019, Tuesday
In backdrop of Economics Nobel announcement, letter panning RCT surfaces
15 economists, including past Nobel laureates say relying on RCTs to guide welfare and aid spending will lead to short-term, ...
