Thoughts on Theory and Practice
THEORIZING REAL LIFE AND SUCH
Prima facie, it seems 2004 all over again. Everybody seems to have been carried by the narrative of election being a foregone conclusion but the voters believed otherwise. Like 2004, all exit polls end up with egg on their face. It is possible they did not carry the polls altogether, just went with the prevailing […]
Read More 2024 Lok sabha elections- Some initial thoughtsEconomics is fun and we are going to play a competition around economics. Interested in participation in ECOFLUENCE- IBA ECONOMICS RESEARCH CHAMPIONSHIP CLICK HERE TO BEGIN YOUR SUBMISSION
Read More ECoFLUENCE- IBA Economics research ChampionshipTo an educational institute, success is an outcome of its academic competence. Implied is the aptitude to roil out students of the highest academic achievement year over year. A pursuit towards the same lies in the rigour of the evaluation system. At first glance it must be conceded the output determined by the academic achievements […]
Read More TOWARDS MEASURING EXAM RIGOURA note on prospective unintended consequences of macroeconomic theory and policy making
Read More Macroeconomic PerilsSeeks to decode the larger message in the announcement of a possible vaccine for COVID-19 by August 15 in India
Read More The Vaccine Game and IndiaA small note on the evolution of sports. How some sports give way to modern sports.
Read More How Sports Evolve?To many, economics still seems to be operating in an abstract zone with little connection to reality. Yet it is far from the truth. Instances abound in everyday life where economics find a conscious or subconscious applications. Economists like Schelling, Becker, Frank, Levitt among many others delved deep into these dimensions to build about a […]
Read More Perverse Economics of Mao’s Agendain the lockdown induced income shock, an attempt to decode the interplay between consumption and savings and options before policy makets
Read More Lockdown and Consumption-Savings InterplayRather than outward globalzaton with global integration as a norm, it is the era of outward nationalism and national economic protectionism. The Wuhan flu has just accelerated the same.
Read More The Left and Right of the Global Political and Economic CycleTechnology underpinned economy and culture is unlocking idling capacity and value of assets, from skills to spaces to material possessions, in ways and on a scale never possible before. The industrial information economy predicated on scale and scope. The new economy is not about scale or scope which are ancillary to the main objective. Through […]
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Thoughts on Theory and Practice 