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

4 min read . Updated: 19 Apr 2021

Covid has pushed too many Indians back into poverty

4 min read . Updated: 05 Apr 2021

State job quotas are a symptom of a bigger unemployment crisis

4 min read . Updated: 21 Mar 2021

The fatal conceit of technocracy that afflicts most policymaking

4 min read . Updated: 21 Feb 2021

Photo: Bloomberg

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

4 min read . Updated: 07 Feb 2021

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

4 min read . Updated: 24 Jan 2021

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

4 min read . Updated: 10 Jan 2021

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

4 min read . Updated: 27 Dec 2020

The farmers' agitation in and around Delhi

A redux of the Modi government’s Thatcher moment

4 min read . Updated: 13 Dec 2020

Zubin Mehta performing at a concert on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Reuters)

In this time of crisis, classical music has been our saviour

4 min read . Updated: 29 Nov 2020

Trump may have been defeated but Trumpism certainly has not

4 min read . Updated: 15 Nov 2020

People eat at tables outside a restaurant in London as England prepares to enter into a second coronavirus lockdown (AFP)

The dubious record of lockdowns against coronavirus

4 min read . Updated: 01 Nov 2020

The Economics Nobel’s propensity to stir controversies

4 min read . Updated: 18 Oct 2020

Covid-19 has given conventional economic wisdom an overhaul

4 min read . Updated: 04 Oct 2020

Covid is worsening inequalities of wealth and income

4 min read . Updated: 20 Sep 2020

India’s growth story has never seemed so endangered

4 min read . Updated: 06 Sep 2020

Photo: Getty Images

India has no alternative but to deal with the People’s Republic

4 min read . Updated: 23 Aug 2020

Opinion | The nation-state is back with a vengeance thanks to covid-19

4 min read . Updated: 09 Aug 2020

India’s much touted success as the world’s largest producer of personal protective equipment has failed to generate noteworthy export sales (Photo: ANI)

Opinion | An economic paradigm reminiscent of our licence raj

4 min read . Updated: 26 Jul 2020

Opinion | A new normal created by the ‘hysteresis’ effects of covid

4 min read . Updated: 12 Jul 2020

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