Suzuki HRM Style

By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Assume that tomorrow you are the HR Manager of the new Suzuki car factory at Kharkhoda in Sonipat, Haryana or at Becharaji in Mehsana, Gujarat. You are selected because you have got the IIM Lucknow edge in People Leadership & Strategic HR Management. However, it [...]

The Ha-Joon Chang Episodes

By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Ha-Joon Chang, now with SOAS and earlier with Cambridge University Economics Department, is a very unassuming and friendly guy. I have had a memorable interaction with him. And like Robert Skidelsky, he is a great economics educator for the laypeople, the masses. A sharp, witty [...]

New Left Economics or Compassionate Economics: Which One Will You Choose?

By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Senior undergrad and Masters students do not like me when I ask them: what is your politics and consequently, what is your economics? Or alternatively, what economics are you doing and what is its politics? Classifying political/social ideas and coherently relating them to economic ideas [...]