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 [...]
Source Ashwini Deshpande is a Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis at Ashoka University. Prof. Deshpande’s research currently has been concentrated on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a special focus on caste and gender in India. To know more about her work, click [...]
By Riya Kalia, Junior Editor Since the dawn of time, discrimination has kept disempowered communities from accessing resources and opportunities. Unfair human biases have been involved in unjust decision-making, depriving them of amenities. Unfortunately, this ordeal persists even in the digital age as algorithms replace humans in the decision-making process. Human discrimination has taken the [...]
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