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 [...]
Category: Cultural Economics
Economy, Power and Politics
( 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, [...]
Beyond the Boundary
By Rama Vivek Gulavani, Junior Editor Source Virat Kohli, the former captain of the Indian cricket team, once said, “The bat is not a toy; it is a weapon”. While the sportsman was referring to his game, India has proved his statement true in various fields. Born in southeast England, the first documented proof of [...]
The Economics Behind #GirlMath
By Ananya J., Junior Editor A research paper titled “From Cradles to Canes: the Cost of being a Female Consumer”, noted that throughout the course of their lives, women pay a “gender tax”, wherein they incur a hefty amount to purchase similar products as men. To give you an idea of this hefty amount, the [...]
The Economics of Streaming: Demystifying Spotify
By Srishti Menon, Editor-in-Chief When was the last time you streamed your favourite artist or podcast on Spotify? Did you frustratedly sigh into your phone, as you impatiently waited for those repetitive ads to ebb away? Maybe you should have signed up for the premium version, after all. Sounds familiar? Many of us have [...]
Policymakers are More Lethal than Oppenheimer.
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD, Department of Economics, SRCC The recent Barbenheimer trend smashing the box office—watching Barbie followed by Oppenheimer or vice versa all over the world--was rather a silly fad. People are not aware that conservative governments and their economists can be more destructive than physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer. The Hindu scripture [...]
K FOR CAPITALISM: Korean Chaebols & the Growth of a Nation
by Surabhi Chhikara Deputy Editor Source Whether or not one claims to be unaffected by the Korean wave or ‘Hallyu’, they cannot deny they’ve heard of it- be it BTS, finger-hearts or kimchi. At a time when South Korea or the Republic of Korea to be precise, has made huge leaps in terms of its [...]
Fun Fact : Women, War And Restaurants
By Gitika Arora, Junior Editor Downton fans will remember that it took Carson - The Butler, an anxiety attack to finally stomach the fact that women were going to serve in the great hall. While today, when you think of servers the picture of a “sassy” waitress pops up popularised by the likes of Penny [...]
Inter-national Treasure: Cultural appropriation and Consumption Pattern.
By Sarthak Sarkar, from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata Abstract This article tries to establish a relation between cultural appropriation and presence of social media and how their interaction affects consumption and production decisions. Introduction Culture remains one of the most widely used yet one of the most vaguely defined terms in the common parlance of [...]
TOTW: Ghosting
By Gitika Arora, Junior Editor In today's world the fear of being ghosted is more than the fear of seeing a ghost itself. But today we aren't here to talk about why you were ghosted (it is not your fault honey !), but rather about Ghosting in the Big Buck world of Stock Markets. According [...]