‘Iranians now blame US-Israel, not Tehran, for their economic woes’Iran's economy, known as the 'resistance economy', is facing severe impacts from the ongoing US-Israel war. Economic pressures are mounting...
23 Apr, 2026, 10.39 PM IST
‘America’s petro-imperialism in Iran has already hiked US fuel cost by $20 billion’Jeff D. Colgan highlights the economic toll of the Iran war on American households. He explains how US military actions against oil-produci...
16 Apr, 2026, 10.53 PM IST
America’s changing stages of capitalism impacted the world — Donald Trump now wants to disrupt the old economic order: Jonathan LevyProfessor Jonathan Levy discusses the evolution of American capitalism. He identifies distinct ages, from commerce to chaos. Donald Trump i...
24 Jul, 2025, 11.04 PM IST
‘Nationalism in China has grown with Xi Jinping— many citizens think economic showdowns with the US are part of China’s rejuvenation’Rory Truex, a Princeton professor, analyzes the evolving US-China relationship, highlighting the shift towards strategic competition under ...
29 May, 2025, 09.48 PM IST
‘We will see more centenarians in an older and healthier world — we now think of a 60-year-old Kamala Harris as being young’Sarah Harper, Clore Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University, discusses the global demographic shift towards an ageing population. She...
12 Sep, 2024, 12.28 AM IST
21st century economics needs a better goal than ‘growth’: Kate RaworthKate Raworth, a Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, discusses the need to reinvent economics to address...
15 Feb, 2024, 09.56 PM IST
Carbon’s social cost higher than estimated but a carbon tax doesn’t address climate justice at all: Billy PizerWe’ve studied how when a country or jurisdiction acts ambitiously on climate mitigation by itself, it’s likely some of the emissions reduct...
26 May, 2023, 12.30 AM IST
Startups have a unique ‘extrapolation’ phase — with the right leadership methods, growth can become exponential here, says Jeffrey Rayport"Ways by which scaling ventures organise themselves contribute to success — one is maintaining a commitment to agility and flexibility by u...
17 Feb, 2023, 12.09 AM IST
‘For the first time in decades, inequality isn’t rising in the US — the tech sector aside, hiring is high across the economy’"Low-wage workers have in fact had the fastest wage growth recently. Unemployment is close to a 50-year-low with job openings at a record h...
17 Nov, 2022, 11.33 PM IST
Trust matters in every economic sense, from a business to a country: Harvard Business School's Sandra SucherTrust impacts nations as well. Some years ago, a study across 29 market economies asked the question — ‘Generally speaking, would you say m...
04 Nov, 2022, 03.24 PM IST
A new global economy driven by size is emerging — the UK has lost a key advantage while India is rising: Christian H. M. KetelsIt is a sign of India rising — and this will only continue. The Indian economy will probably become the world’s third largest in the forese...
27 Oct, 2022, 11.55 PM IST
Financial investments like stocks can realign people’s incentives to have peaceful societies: Saumitra JhaThis idea, of realigning the incentives of critical groups and making them pro-development, is very powerful — and financial markets are an...
12 May, 2022, 11.30 PM IST
Visionary companies are economically successful, socially impactful — and more likely to invest in sustainability: Jerry I. PorrasInvesting in sustainability strategies can be costly — the question becomes, what do your values tell you about where to invest resources? ...
06 Aug, 2021, 10.28 PM IST
‘Energy requirements to lead a decent life in developing nations are modest compared to US use — we need a new paradigm on equity’Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, Narasimha D Rao, Professor of Energy Systems at Yale University, discusses how poverty eradication could hel...
16 Jul, 2021, 11.49 PM IST
‘Industrial symbiosis saves the environment and India is a world leader in such sustainability'"My team has studied multiple economies and we’ve found India to be the most promising country of all at industrial symbiosis. In India, pe...
12 Jun, 2021, 09.19 AM IST
Trump’s lowest on moral, intellectual rung – but he can win: Susan Abulhawa, American writer'Muslims are the 'other' de jour, Mexicans second runners up – and fear of black people is persistent.'
01 Feb, 2016, 12.35 PM IST
We did not know governance but were not corrupt: AAP's Kumar Vishwas"If Arvind Kejriwal ran Delhi on a 'good governance' plank without getting the Jan Lokpal Bill passed, I would have been his biggest critic...
19 Mar, 2014, 01.30 PM IST