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Not all 'A's: Unconventional paths that led to NobelsMany Nobel laureates, including Albert Einstein and Frances Arnold, navigated unconventional academic paths, from skipping classes to expul...
‘We are living in truly dangerous times — the field of ecology can teach economics about cooperation and mutual survival’: Simon LevinSimon Levin, an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor at Princeton University, emphasizes the intersection between economics and ecolo...
Government cancels FCRA licences of 6 NGOs over 'violations'The NGOs include the Diocesan Society Church of North, Jesus and Mary Delhi Educational Society, Delhi Diocese Overseas Grant Fund, Institu...
Claudia Goldin wins the 2023 Nobel Economics PrizeClaudia Goldin has been awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for her work on women's lab...
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Economics PrizeThe prize, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year's crop of...
View: The only way to cure the fear of taxation is to respect the honest taxpayerThe faceless assessment scheme is a major change in the work flow and processes of the I-T department that has always functioned in well-de...
View: The much talked-about randomised controlled trials are more sinned against than sinningRCTs, by creating treatment (those who get the development programme) and control groups (those who don’t), create further ethical problems...
Climate, development tipped for Nobel economics prizeAs with the other Nobels, nominations and deliberations are kept secret for 50 years, so it's nearly impossible to know which way the prize...
Do economists cheat us by presenting opinion as facts?As Fox notes, the analysis actually rests on a conveniently biased selection of data.
Nobel Economics Prize to wrap up 2015 awards seasonThe economics prize -- the only one of the six awards not created in Swedish philanthropist and scientist Alfred Nobel's 1895 will.
How community rights under the Forest Rights Act could transform the lives of millions of forest dwellersCommunity rights under the Forest Rights Act could transform the lives of millions of forest dwellers, but only if the bureaucracy is pushe...
Jaipur congress session can be expressed in two metaphors: Governance and voiceGovernance should enable citizens to “become effective in rendering their environment relatively more malleable.
Delay in decision-making is useful when virtue is unclear & conditions, novelObsession with speed and time-lines is unlikely to work in deregulated environments containing uncertainty and value conflicts.
- The crisis of governance in India
Governance in India is largely informalised, which has led to rapid growth and also produced counter-trends that are, now, depressing growt...
- Development poses single biggest threat to India's forests: Ramesh
'If we are to protect the Mahananda, then railway passengers have to accept that they will travel in the area on the meter gauge and not th...
- Development 'biggest threat' to forests: Ramesh
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said the "single biggest threat" to the forests in the country is the "developmental threat...
- Nobel pair highlight free-market 'failures'
The quest for economic harmony when pure free market principles break down makes Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson timely choices for thi...
- Another non-market Nobel
This year's Nobel prize honours work that extends our understanding of institutions.