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Opinion | Do heuristics help us make good decisions in uncertain times?

The bias behavioural economists have towards it has given the discourse on decision-making too negative a frame

4 min read17 Jan 2019
Industry

You may live a year longer if India achieves its air quality standards

People in Delhi will live six years longer if air quality meets national standards, says a study by researchers from the University of Chicago and Harvard University

2 min read13 Aug 2018
Technology

Science suggests Facebook makes us more dismissive in arguments

Research suggests that reading the same argument makes us react very differently than if the same conversation happened in a voice chat

1 min read12 Dec 2017
Opinion

An economics heathen wins the economics Nobel

The repercussions of Richard H. Thaler’s work in helping organizations better understand human behaviour—and why traditional economics has failed so badly at this—are hard to overstate

2 min read9 Oct 2017
Mint-lounge

A.K. Ramanujan: a lonely hero

The narrative around the pioneering Indian English poet and translator must rescue him from his image of a remote icon into a living inspiration

8 min read25 Sep 2017
Politics

Delhi residents could live nine years longer if air quality meets WHO standards: study

The Air Quality Life Index , when considered at the national level, says Indians on a whole could live four years longer on average if the air quality meets WHO standards

1 min read12 Sep 2017
News

Barack Obama edges back into public eye but steers clear of Trump talk

During his speech at the University of Chicago, Barack Obama dwelt on his plans of fostering a new generation of leaders rather than political battles with Donald Trump

4 min read25 Apr 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
Politics

Raghuram Rajan resumes academic role at Chicago Booth School

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan will teach international corporate finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

2 min read19 Sep 2016
Opinion

India will miss Raghuram Rajan as teacher more than as banker

Indian business must cop the blame for doing little to foster educational institutions that might have made Rajan consider teaching in India

4 min read21 Jun 2016
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