By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC The field of Natural Resource Economics seeks to value natural resources to aid in the optimization of the production of goods and services from agricultural lands while protecting the environment. In case you are going to specialise in this field, then you will have to [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC There is economic constriction by inequality when inequality obstructs, subverts and distorts. This reality is revealed by the American case study as presented by Dr. Heather Boushey (see her photo above) in her 2019 masterpiece. Formerly the President and CEO of the Washington Centre for [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Note that: Well said. Drucilla K. Barker—Drue to her near and dear—was one such remarkable, sensitive and sensible woman in the US. She was also endearing to eminent multidisciplinary writers such as my earlier student, Kaul (2008) who is now the Director of the Centre [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Like the bio for the Nobel-laureate Claudia Goldin may give you chill bumps, this brief biography of Kari Levitt (pictured above and below), the only centenarian lady economist in the world, should give you goosebumps and force open unconventional development economics (influenced by Marxism and Keynesianism) for you to [...]
The prestigious Kenneth Boulding Award for Ecological Economics was recently awarded to Prof. Bina Agarwal, professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester, jointly with Prof. David Burkin, professor at the Metropolitan University in Mexico City. The International Society for Ecological Economics presented the award for ‘their significant contributions to ecological economics, focusing on [...]
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 [...]
By Gitika Arora, Editor-In-Chief Dr. Gary Becker was an instrumental economist with groundbreaking and defining contributions to the field. He was born on 2nd December 1930 amidst the dark shadows of the Great Depression. Becker got his PHD from University Of Chicago in 1955 under the renowned Nobel Prize Winner, Milton Friedman. Like Friedman, Becker [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Religious and spiritual “Babas” are galore in India and elsewhere and they say to you that your happiness is mucked up because you are afflicted with the seven deadly sins as pictured above. For example, Baba Rampuri Naga (William A. Gans) can eloquently talk to [...]
By Vedika Sakhardande, Deputy Editor Anna Schwartz is one of the most prominent monetary scholars in the history of economics. Her work alongside Milton Friedman on the Monetary History of the US had a wide-ranging impact on the very course and nature of economic thought and theory. Having co-authored over 10 books and 100 articles, [...]
By Riya Kalia, Chief Editor Joan Violet Robinson (October 31, 1903 – August 5, 1983), one of the most prolific economists of the twentieth century, was arguably the only great female economist born before the 1930s. Robinson's contributions to economics are far too many to spell out completely. She studied economics at Cambridge University, where [...]
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