By M Tharuni, Deputy Editor Source Although epidemiology may consider COVID-19 to be a "novel" coronavirus, historians find many aspects of the disease's behaviour and the economic effects it has sparked, to be clearly devoid of novelty. The events of early 2020 have so evidently reminded observers of the country’s long history of pandemics like [...]
Source Ashwini Deshpande is a Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis at Ashoka University. Prof. Deshpande’s research currently has been concentrated on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a special focus on caste and gender in India. To know more about her work, click [...]
By Akshar Katariya (Ashoka University); Akshar won the third position in our essay writing competition. Enjoy his submission! (The article was written before June 2020) Free market capitalism has induced fierce competition where power hunger and overbearing ambition have pitted countries against one another. While it is evident that competition causes innovation by product differentiation [...]
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