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By Arka Chaudhuri The Suez Canal is undoubtedly one of the most important maritime regions in the world, separating Asia and Africa and providing a direct route from the Mediterranean sea to the Red Sea, hence essentially all of the East. The 193 Km Canal, which carries close to 12% of all maritime trade, saves … Continue reading Never Again: What we can learn from the Suez Canal Blockade

By Arka Chaudhuri 400 million Indians work as migrants in other states which provide more job prospects than their home state. Thus, approximately a whopping 26% of the Indian population are migrants, living far from their home states in search of better economic conditions. This population originates majorly from states like Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, … Continue reading The Economy of India’s Migrant Labour Market

Prof. David Berger is an associate professor of economics at the Duke University’s Department of Economics. His research interests are empirical macro/monetary economics, the influence of housing on the macroeconomy, and labor and finance. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in economics and history. What are … Continue reading Interview Insights: Professor David Berger

By Anushka Bansal Zipf’s law is a discrete form of the continuous pareto distribution from which we get the pareto principle (popularized and formulated by economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906). The pareto principle states that 20% of the causes account for 80% of the results. When Linguist George Zipf ranked the words in order of … Continue reading Zipfian Distribution: Death and Diseases

By Annavajhula J.C. Bose, PhD; Department of Economics, SRCC (University of Delhi) The concept of ‘social capital’ in social sciences refers to the “potential of individuals to secure benefits and invent solutions to problems through membership in social networks. Social capital revolves around three dimensions: interconnected networks of relationships between individuals and groups (social ties … Continue reading Opinions Column: Poor Social Capital Militates Against Broad-based Indian Prosperity

Dr Maitreesh Ghatak has been Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics since 2004. He previously taught at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.  His main areas of research interest are development economics, public economics, and the economics of organizations. Dr Ghatak completed his PhD in Economics at Harvard University … Continue reading Interview Insights: Dr Maitreesh Ghatak

By Annavajhula J.C. Bose, PhD; Department of Economics, SRCC (University of Delhi) India has ranked at a dismal 144 out of 156 countries surveyed for the UN World Happiness Index 2019. This shameful finding should not be surprising at all as the Indian policy makers have never prioritized “human wellbeing”; instead, they have been worshipping, … Continue reading Opinions Column: Happy-ness Economics

By Annavajhula J.C. Bose, PhD; Department of Economics, SRCC (University of Delhi) Unable to deal with their unhappiness–for whatever reason–through mind-management, countless young people make attempts at suicide and many of them actually murder their bodies as the solution. If you are unhappy, especially despite being economically prosperous, and off and on broaching the idea … Continue reading Opinions Column: Mysterious Happy-ness

Professor Sanjit Dhami is currently Professor of Economics at University of Leicester and Fellow at Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel as well as at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. Prof Dhami holds a Masters and PhD in Economics (1997) from the University of Toronto, Canada and an MPhil from the Delhi School of … Continue reading Interview Insights: Prof. Sanjit Dhami

Prof. Manisha Goel is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Pomona College. Previously, Dr. Goel was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a Ph.D. in Economics in June 2012 and a Master’s degree … Continue reading Interview Insights: Dr Manisha Goel