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...
09 Oct, 2023, 07.58 PM IST
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...
10 Oct, 2022, 06.42 PM IST
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...
20 Nov, 2020, 11.21 PM IST
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...
17 Oct, 2019, 11.09 PM IST
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...
08 Oct, 2018, 09.19 AM IST
Do economists cheat us by presenting opinion as facts?As Fox notes, the analysis actually rests on a conveniently biased selection of data.
02 Aug, 2017, 02.03 PM IST
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.
12 Oct, 2015, 12.14 PM IST
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...
09 Aug, 2015, 06.19 AM IST
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.
06 Feb, 2013, 08.27 AM IST
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.
26 Oct, 2012, 04.55 AM IST
- 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...
25 Jun, 2012, 05.42 AM IST
- 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...
06 Jan, 2011, 01.53 AM IST
- 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...
06 Jan, 2011, 01.32 AM IST
- 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...
13 Oct, 2009, 02.06 PM IST
- Another non-market Nobel
This year's Nobel prize honours work that extends our understanding of institutions.
13 Oct, 2009, 02.18 AM IST