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Follow your passion is, at best, confusing career advice

Passions can change and we constantly underestimate the change we will go through

2 min read4 Mar 2019
Politics

SnapFact: Where you grew up can affect your income

Neighbourhoods with faster economic growth may not actually improve a child’s potential life income, showing there are other factors at play

1 min read22 Oct 2018
Opinion

Are people hardwired to be optimistic about their future well-being?

A new research paper by Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton suggests that people, especially in their youth, may be too optimistic about their future

3 min read10 Mar 2018
Science

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis gets over two million views

More than 500,000 people have also tried to download Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis, titled 'Properties of Expanding Universes' from the Cambridge University website

1 min read29 Oct 2017
Opinion

Internet boost

Does the internet have an economic impact similar to that of railways on an economy?

1 min read10 Aug 2017
Opinion

A pay-per-publication system to spur research

China is giving researchers huge financial rewards to publish in reputed journals. This has Western academics worried

4 min read3 Aug 2017
Opinion

The economics of despair

Recent research by the likes of Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton have focused attention on poverty and ill-health in the US

8 min read8 May 2017
Industry

It’s great to be back in Chicago: Raghuram Rajan

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan on life at Chicago Booth School of Business after his tumultuous stint at the Reserve Bank of India

2 min read7 Feb 2017
Industry

When procrastination can be efficient for a team

A recent paper claims a team with all or a few members with a tendency to procrastinate may be more efficient than a team where everyone starts work immediately

3 min read27 Jan 2016
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Doctoral dissertations from a tea stall

Cheap labour and algorithms make everything you want done possible. But it won't take you any place significant

7 min read24 May 2015
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