By Jasveen Kaur, Junior Editor Migration has been an integral part of human history, dating back to nearly two million years ago when the first human ancestor ventured out of Africa in pursuit of new opportunities and lands. Presently, there is a greater number of individuals living in countries other than their country of birth [...]
By Ekanshi Makheja, Deputy Editor Introduction to Behavioural Economics People think Behavioural Economics is a relatively new field of economics, yet the first-ever behavioural economist happened to be Adam Smith! The core assumption of neoclassical economics is that agents choose by optimising their decisions based on predefined constraints, but it wasn't always that way, Economics [...]
By Ananya J., Junior Editor Did you recently find yourself watching a Bollywood “blockbuster” and were sent into a spiral of calculating the misfortune you have been struck with? Did you feel disheartened by the ubiquity of these monotonous dull movies, falsely marketed by the filmmakers as the next big blockbuster, prompting you to question [...]
( By Rama Vivek Gulavani, Junior Editor ) The year was 1919, when the Palace of Versailles stood on the outskirts of Paris, waiting to create global history. The marble walls of the hall of mirrors had the presence of 27 delegations representing 32 powers. The four representatives of the principal allied powers—France, the USA, [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC I summarise here, with a bit of my own tweaking, the social-anthropological argumentation of Molly Scott Cato (pictured), Professor of Green Economics at the University of Roehampton, London. Like in Rishab Shetty’s Kantara movie, the shaman is an intermediary between human communities and their ecosystem. [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC There is economic constriction by inequality when inequality obstructs, subverts and distorts. This reality is revealed by the American case study as presented by Dr. Heather Boushey (see her photo above) in her 2019 masterpiece. Formerly the President and CEO of the Washington Centre for [...]
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