By Jasveen Kaur, Junior Editor Migration has been an integral part of human history, dating back to nearly two million years ago when the first human ancestor ventured out of Africa in pursuit of new opportunities and lands. Presently, there is a greater number of individuals living in countries other than their country of birth [...]
( 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, [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Suppose you reveal to me the flame in yourself as also myself, and I reveal to you the flame in myself as also yourself in going up the hill of “exploring alternatives”. And suppose that means, both of us are seeking “to analyze the economic [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Do you know that through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy? If you want to join the ‘economics for the [...]
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 Senior undergrad and Masters students do not like me when I ask them: what is your politics and consequently, what is your economics? Or alternatively, what economics are you doing and what is its politics? Classifying political/social ideas and coherently relating them to economic ideas [...]
By Junior Editor, Gitika Arora According to the Global Slavery Index, there are an estimated 40.3 million people who are victims of modern slavery worldwide. Shocking, right? This can take many forms, including forced labor, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Unfortunately, this is a growing global problem that affects people of all ages, genders, and [...]
By Annavajhula J. C. Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC How can you improve your intellect in the midst of numerous intellectual battles in economics? Don’t you, like me, feel like getting out of the problem that a battle for your mind is constantly taking place?—“We're influenced by the news, social gatherings, what we read, [...]
By Annavajhula J.C. Bose, PhDDepartment of Economics, SRCC What do we need to know about the economy? What must be done so that the economy better serves human, social and environmental needs? In seeking answers to these questions, have you ever suspected or known in your bones that something is terribly wrong with our socio-economy, [...]
by Medha Arora, Deputy Editor A rather recent and highly important discourse regarding social media has been issues of privacy, surveillance and targeted advertising. This has often led to the identification of big business interests who pervade such spaces, and commodify users’ data. The capitalist nature of technology and social media isn’t a new area [...]
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