Why Some Nations Thrive While Others Struggle
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu and Simon Johnson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and James Alan Robinson of University of Chicago shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their […]
Can Logical Thinking Make One Happier?
In his latest publication ‘Reason to be Happy: Why Logical Thinking is the Key to a Better Life‘, Indian economist Dr Kaushik Basu has discussed at length the existence (or […]
Shedding Light On Lies
This may start with an old, perhaps exaggerated, story… Once, a Soviet official, involved in the Five-Year Plan, was asked to visit the Office of Joseph Stalin. Stalin had reportedly […]
Banking On Their Researches
When the Nobel Committee announced on October 10, 2022 that US Economists Ben Shalom Bernanke (b. December 13, 1953), Douglas Warren Diamond (b. October 1953) and Philip Hallen Dybvig (b. […]
