By Deputy Editor, Surabhi Chhikara What do the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 1970 oil boom and the recent release of the film Aadujeevitham (Goat Life) have in common? They all relate to the Gulf countries and more precisely to the kafala system- a legal framework that has brought both wealth and tears to migrant labourers [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar and Ela Bhatt (pictured below) are among the most famous female social movement workers in India. Aruna Roy was the founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, and Medha Patkar, of Narmada Bachao Andolan. Ela Bhatt was the founder of the Self [...]
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 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 [...]
By Vedika Sakhardande, Deputy Editor Economists such as Pigou and Sen have made contributions to the field of welfare economics which seeks to study how the allocation of resources and goods affects social welfare. The problem of welfare economics so far has been “manipulation of heterogenous assortments” which implies accommodating the heterogenous preferences of men [...]
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