In the margins

A Nobel in economics for teasing causation apart from correlation

4 min read . 14 Oct 2021

The Evergrande crisis is merely the tip of the iceberg of an overheated and indebted property sector. (AFP)

Is this the Schadenfreude moment for China sceptics?

4 min read . 04 Oct 2021

Polls suggest whichever party wins would almost certainly do so with a minority, and this would be a defeat for Trudeau who has bet on an early election in the hope of a majority. (REUTERS)

Trudeau has taken a gamble in calling an early election

4 min read . 16 Sep 2021

US Federal Reserve. (AP)

How emerging economies bear the burden of the dollar hegemony

4 min read . 06 Sep 2021

Unless the advanced world gets serious about normalizing policy, we may be faced with greater wealth inequality and high inflation. (AP)

The dangers of continuing with unconventional money policies

4 min read . 20 Aug 2021

The pandemic at an inflexion point calls for extra care (Photo: AP)

The pandemic at an inflexion point calls for extra care

4 min read . 10 Aug 2021

Britain has reopened from 19 July, what has been dubbed as 'Freedom Day', even as covid infections rise, (REUTERS)

Boris Johnson is taking a big gamble with ‘Freedom Day’

4 min read . 23 Jul 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led strong majority governments in both terms.

Modi’s cabinet reshuffle isn’t as peculiar as it is made out to be

4 min read . 11 Jul 2021

Other members include economist Jean Drèze, who was a member of the now-defunct National Advisory Council set up under the previous Congress-led Union government, and former Union finance secretary S. Narayan

Tamil Nadu turns to star economists. Will it work?

4 min read . 28 Jun 2021

The mythical notion of evidence-based policymaking

4 min read . 14 Jun 2021

Failures of globalization have worsened the pandemic

4 min read . 18 May 2021

A tribute to one of the greatest economists of the past century

4 min read . 19 Apr 2021

Covid has pushed too many Indians back into poverty

4 min read . 05 Apr 2021

State job quotas are a symptom of a bigger unemployment crisis

4 min read . 21 Mar 2021

The fatal conceit of technocracy that afflicts most policymaking

4 min read . 21 Feb 2021

Photo: Bloomberg

Sitharaman’s tariff increases are based on a new economic gambit

4 min read . 07 Feb 2021

Has covid sent countries of the West down the road to serfdom?

4 min read . 24 Jan 2021

The real lesson of Trump’s coup attempt that shocked everyone

4 min read . 10 Jan 2021

Labour reforms are not to blame for the unrest at Wistron’s plant

4 min read . 27 Dec 2020

The farmers' agitation in and around Delhi

A redux of the Modi government’s Thatcher moment

4 min read . 13 Dec 2020