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A wake-up call

7 Nov 2020 11:25 PM IST
The ongoing and contentious election in Myanmar have once again spotlighted the nation’s deeply problematic citizenship laws which have rendered many...

Abuse of the lockdown

7 Nov 2020 11:14 PM IST
I first noticed the trend six months back, as repeated classified ads in newspapers shook me up, and the innocence in the pictures let out in me a...

New Institutional Economics: Resolving collective action dilemmas

7 Nov 2020 10:52 PM IST
With the failure of the neoclassical model in addressing the supply of public goods and common-pool resources, NIE offers the necessary tools to...

Lost in power

31 Oct 2020 10:55 PM IST
Much needed pollution norms for the coal-based power plants were globally appreciated but the government’s negligence in dealing with the problems in...

New Institutional Economics: Defining asymmetric information

31 Oct 2020 10:52 PM IST
Exploring another core component of the NIE+ framework — the issue of asymmetric and incomplete information — while also identifying its role in the...

The woods 'were' lovely…

31 Oct 2020 10:49 PM IST
It has taken not even a month for the brutal impact of humankind to make itself felt again in the lap of nature. In the higher Himalayas, the Lahaul...

20 years, and counting

24 Oct 2020 11:00 PM IST
I met a beautiful and rather impetuous girl two decades back. Arrogant and shameless she was. Unfortunately, she still is. But somehow, she has...

New Institutional Economics: Exploring property rights

24 Oct 2020 10:54 PM IST
An in-depth look at one of the core concepts in the NIE+ framework — property rights — and discussing the many empirical and theoretical approaches to...

At the fringe

24 Oct 2020 10:51 PM IST
A comparative look at the changing state of street vending policies in India and China in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

On trial for thoughts

24 Oct 2020 10:44 PM IST
With three chargesheet now filed against them, what is stopping the Elgaar Parishad activists from getting bail? With evidence of their "provocative"...

CNG. Can Not Go?

10 Oct 2020 10:46 PM IST
I asked a friend to accompany me and Anjali to our home in Manali in a few days. He was keen, but festered long and hard about the longevity of his...

New Institutional Economics : Understanding transaction costs

10 Oct 2020 10:27 PM IST
Revisiting one of the central concepts in the NIE+ framework — the theory of transaction costs and highlighting the methods of measuring such costs
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