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Curb your overenthusiasm: Why India must avoid early overregulation while drafting rules for new techIndia faces a critical choice in regulating new industries like AI and genomics. Overly cautious, ex-ante regulations, similar to the histo...- Teachers like KL Krishna, they matterThe Padma Shri was awarded to K L Krishna of the Delhi School of Economics, known for his exceptional teachings in econometrics and industr...
- World’s top 10 universities 2025Oxford has retained its position as the top university for the ninth consecutive year, attributed to significant enhancements in industry c...
- Former CEA Kaushik Basu decodes borderlands where politics and economics meet in new bookNow, having taken leave from academe and come into the world of policy, for the first time I believe that Keynes had hit upon a fundamental...
- Awaiting Janet Yellen at Treasury: Yet another daunting crisisIf confirmed, Yellen would become the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in its nearly 232 years. She would inherit an economy wit...
- Joe Biden to name Janet Yellen to Treasury to lead U.S. from sharp economic downturnThe move, confirmed by Democratic allies to the Biden campaign, will shift Treasury's focus heavily toward progressive efforts to tackle gr...
- Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence lead new group to tackle world's economic woesA sluggish recovery from the global financial crisis and concerns about globalization have helped fuel a rise of populist movements across ...
- Who will be the next Fed chairYellen was ranked among the top three most likely candidates for the central-bank post.
- What are the profit motives behind financial complexity?Complexity was a bad sign. More complex deals experienced higher default rates and more foreclosures on their collateral.
- The 20 best business books of 2015From a biography of Elon Musk to a look inside Google's management structure, we've picked our favorite business books of 2015.
- Eight most influential business books of the yearThis year's top business books come from journalists, economists and academics on a range of topics. Here are some books to catch up on.
- Janet Yellen moves out of her Nobel-laureate husband George Akerlof’s shadowYellen began her career as the under-appreciated “plus one” to George Akerlof, the heavyweight academic who bagged the Nobel Prize for Econ...
- Janet Yellen to lead: US Federal Reserve to get first female chiefObama will nominate Janet Yellen as chairperson of US Fed, who would be the first female leader in its 100-year history.
- RBI chief Subbarao to attend IMF conference next monthRBI Governor will share his perspective at an IMF conference that will discuss policy pursued by various governments in the aftermath of gl...
- Growth is more important than inflation: Joseph Stiglitz"In a trade-off between growth and moderate inflation, I would plump for growth." That, clearly is a cue for the Reserve Bank of India, fro...
- Are quotas the best instruments for delivering equal opportunities?Why have quotas not delivered to the extent that was expected? This leads to another, are quotas the best instruments for delivering equal ...
- The story of India's Rs 60,000 cr second-hand market, minus cars and bikesThe second-hand market is booming. ET on Sunday tracks how clicks are gaining over bricks when it comes to vendors.
- Let a hundred theories bloomThe economic and financial crisis has been a telling moment for the economics profession, for it has put many long-standing ideas to the te...
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