By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC You have graduated in Chicagonomics—Chicago Free Market Economics. And you have interned for long with the centre-right American Enterprise Institute, which is worried about left-wing domination of Humanities and Social Sciences. In contrast, I belong to the neither pro-Left nor pro-Right Heterodox Academy. Our motto [...]
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 [...]
By Devika M, Editor-in-Chief Neuroeconomics is a unique blend of economies, psychology and neuroscience. It involves analysing the functions of the brain behind decision-making. The aim of studying neuroeconomics is to fill certain gaps indecision making by humans that don't necessarily comply with conventional economic theories. For example, rational choice theory suggests that investors will [...]
By Medha Arora, Deputy Editor “The year 2020 will be a defining year for humanity. It is a year that represents the summing up of the past and the establishment of a new order”, said popular Russian astrologer Tatiana Borsch in 2019, accurately predicting the current global economic crisis and events of 2020. While she [...]
By Medha Arora, Deputy Editor What does a financial crisis sound like? The yelling of a trading room, the anger and frustration of people who lost their jobs, incessant blaring of television news and arguing economists and policy-makers, perhaps? To Julian Anderson, composer in residence at the London Philharmonic Orchestra, this image presents itself as [...]
By Ahalya P. Rajesh, Junior Editor The objective of structuring a policy, a principled guide to action put in place by the executive branch of the government, is to help solve one of society’s numerous problems and in some cases, to prevent disastrous situations from arising. There is no better case to analyse and study [...]
“The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are right.” ~ Benjamin Graham Investing with the crowd or based on passing trends is as wise as going skydiving with a plastic bag for a parachute. This is like investing using [...]
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