Sorry Abhijit Banerjee, high taxes and freebies don’t create egalitarian utopia
Dear Abhijit Banerjee, Congrats on winning the Nobel Prize. In a recent interview, you castigated economic journalists like me for
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Author: Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
What Dronacharya Wants
India needs to expand its drone strategy, and have a major production programme Last month, Saudi Arabia was hit by
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And the Nobel Prize goes to… experimental economics
All Indians are delighted that Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, has won the Nobel Prize for
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Sorry Greta, India needs more coal to power growth
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year old Swedish girl who lectured the United Nations on climate change, is being touted as a
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Follow the Sun, Hindustan
With time, effort and luck, Ladakh could become north India’s power hub Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar Thegovernment says converting Jammu
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PMC’s brazen crookery shows why industrialists should not own banks
When private sector banks were allowed to open in the 1990s, some economists thought big industrialists were the obvious candidates.
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UK’s swift 27-day ruling puts our system to shame
On August 28, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament to thwart his opponents from stopping a no-deal exit from
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The Beginning of a Start?
Cutting corporate tax to accelerate growth could be the first step to structural change Bravo, Nirmala Sitharaman. After becoming finance
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Why ban vaping but not the more dangerous bidis?
The government is spinelessly hypocritical in banning the use of e-cigarettes, popularly called vaping because it entails inhaling nicotine-infused vapour
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