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Wealth Quote of the Day by John Maynard Keynes: “The importance of money flows from ......” How Keynes challenged classical theory and created modern economics?Wealth Quote of the Day by John Maynard Keynes: “The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.” Mo...
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FM urges industry to unleash animal spirits; make India fastest growing economySpeaking to industry leaders at an All India Management Association (AIMA) event, she said the government has taken several steps including...
20 Feb, 2021, 02.07 PM IST
Festival of Lights fails to revive India’s sullen animal spiritsPoor reading in all key markers signals a protracted slowdown, and may influence the RBI to cut rates more.
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Central banks giving much-needed boost to gold demandThe Russian Central Bank for six consecutive years has bought gold as it continues to diversify away from US dollars.
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Guess who inspired Raghuram Rajan to become an economist?The former RBI governor was inspired by a scientist to take up economics.
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Learn with ETMarkets: What is negative interest rateThe negative interest rate policy adopted by Japan and some European countries in the last decades has failed, too.
31 Aug, 2016, 09.13 AM IST
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wins new UK awardEminent Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has been named as the first winner of a newly established award in the UK, in recog...
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- On Money and Finance
It is helpful to separate my opinions about how the world works, which do change, from my values, which have remained unaltered.
17 Sep, 2014, 04.22 AM IST
The abuses of history: Lessons for the futureA study of history may be needed precisely to unlearn the effects that history has on us. History can mould us unconsciously in dangerous w...
11 Oct, 2013, 12.31 PM IST
Changing words character in changing market demandsOnce shanghaied into alternative roles, prolonged, innovative (mis)use of words can literally change their character.
15 Aug, 2013, 04.57 AM IST
Mahatma Gandhi, unlike Keynes opposed an economic system where materialism matteredGandhi argued that all efforts to improve the human condition are bound to fail unless they put dharma above pursuit of arth (wealth) and k...
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- Economic Survey 2012: How Kaushik Basu jazzed up the survey
The Economic Survey has never been on the must-grab list of design aficionados, although Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu has taken baby...
16 Mar, 2012, 07.22 AM IST
- Goldman model evokes ancient Egypt's blood-sucking leeches
Economists have been debating the pros and cons of fiscal stimulus since the 1930s, when John Maynard Keynes diagnosed the problem as one o...
04 Mar, 2011, 01.41 AM IST
- UK may mark the end of Keynesian economics
The UK has produced notable economists over the years, but John Maynard Keynes, the guru of government intervention, was one of truly globa...
24 Feb, 2010, 03.01 AM IST
- No need for haste in withdrawal of stimulus, says Montek
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said that the decision to unwind the stimulus measures of the past year woul...
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