Sun, Nov 18 2018. 07 43 PM IST
T.N. Srinivasan is one of a very select group of economists who could take satisfaction in knowing that they played a consequential, intellectually grounded role in shaping an important event in world history—in this case, India rejoining the global economy in 1991
Sun, Nov 11 2018. 09 23 PM IST
The death of T. N. Srinivasan, the iconoclast who laid the intellectual groundwork for India’s economic reforms, marks the end of an era
Thu, Nov 08 2018. 09 21 PM IST
Capitalist enterprises are designed to produce profits for their investors by improving efficiency and extracting economic surplus from their operations
Sun, Oct 14 2018. 09 35 PM IST
There must be transparency about how the proposed independent board will be an improvement over the RBI
Mon, Oct 01 2018. 09 37 PM IST
Economic reforms whose thrust is to provide consumers more stuff to aspire for, but do not provide the means to earn and pay for it, are short-sighted
Tue, Sep 18 2018. 10 37 AM IST
The conversion of financial stability forum into a more permanent Financial Stability Board was a change for good
Mon, Sep 03 2018. 02 27 AM IST
While the missing middle in India’s economic institutions is cramping enterprises struggling to scale up, the dwindling middle in political institutions is creating dangerous societal divisions
Thu, Aug 30 2018. 11 15 PM IST
The United Progressive Alliance government’s policies across its two terms ensured that it achieved consistently high growth
Thu, Aug 16 2018. 05 51 PM IST
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure as prime minister was marked for its tenacity with him refusing to budge in the face of fierce Western pressure after India conducted five nuclear tests in May 1998
Tue, Aug 14 2018. 09 34 PM IST
Talking to real people in real places, as Naipaul did, can help to pierce through the fog of ideologies and provide invaluable insights for tuning up India’s trade and industrial policies
