Is UBI the solution to the AI revolution?

A Utopian concept of receiving payment without working By Deputy Editor, Ekanshi Makheja UBI is a government scheme in which every person receives a regular fixed income. It is a scheme that does not require means-testing in the first place, i.e. it is typically intended to reach all with no conditions. It takes different forms [...]

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 [...]

Corporates and State are After You

By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Like George Orwell’s portrayal of state or party surveillance (Big Brother is Watching You), Shoshana Zuboff, as you see above, has got a ground breaking  portrayal of the surveillance capitalist practices of corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Shoshana, a radical professor retired from [...]