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Innovators in auction theory
1 Jan 2022 11:15 PM ISTApart from using game theory to design alternative auction formats, Paul Robert Milgrom and Robert Butler Wilson carried out influential works in...
Festivities over faith
26 Dec 2021 12:30 AM ISTGiven Kolkata’s diversity of religions and cultures, Christmas celebrations are not just restricted to Christians. Non-Christians, in thousands,...
Pacesetters in macroeconomics
18 Dec 2021 10:56 PM ISTWhile William Dawbney Nordhaus incorporated climate change in economic models and emphasised on cooperative multinational policies for tackling the...
The Nobel Series: Exponent of behavioural economics
11 Dec 2021 9:27 PM ISTRichard H Thaler developed Herbert Simon’s concept of bounded rationality to recognise cognitive biases in decision making, apart from assessing the...
Past masters of contract theory
5 Dec 2021 12:10 AM ISTWhile Oliver D’Arcy Hart is best-known for his work on incomplete contracts and allocation of residual rights, Bengt Robert Holmström worked on design...
The welfarist academician
27 Nov 2021 11:46 PM ISTAngus Deaton is known for extensively analysing data around individual consumer choices, and linking it with aggregate consumption, to shape policies...
Proponent of industrial organisation
21 Nov 2021 12:16 AM ISTBuilding upon the concepts regulating monopolies and oligopolies, Jean Tirole used game theory and industrial organisation to present a general theory...
Exponents of asset pricing
14 Nov 2021 12:23 AM ISTWhile Eugene Francis Fama attributed the difficulty in short-run predictions to efficient markets and Robert James Shiller contradicted him by holding...
The matchmakers
6 Nov 2021 10:24 PM ISTWhile the prolific game theorist Lloyd Stowell Shapley laid out the theoretical ground in the form of Gale-Shapley algorithm, Alvin Elliot Roth...
Cause-effect relations
30 Oct 2021 11:32 PM ISTAnalysing the effects of external shocks on macroeconomy, Thomas John Sargent factored in rational expectations and their impact, while Christopher...
Innovators of search market
24 Oct 2021 1:03 AM ISTDiamond, Mortensen and Pissarides formulated a theoretical framework for search markets in which buyers and sellers do not always make contact with...
The Nobel Series: Alternative economic governance
16 Oct 2021 11:57 PM ISTWhile Elinor Ostrom dealt with overcoming collective action dilemmas in managing natural resources, Oliver Eaton Williamson is well-known for building...
Echoes of an Imperial Folly?
17 May 2025 9:58 PM ISTPerils of the Sinking Shores
17 May 2025 9:56 PM ISTCinematic Waves of Change
17 May 2025 9:55 PM ISTEvolutionary Arc of India’s Edge
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17 May 2025 9:43 PM IST
CM announces 16L new homes under ‘Banglar Bari’; unveils 365 projects...
21 May 2025 1:24 AM ISTMamata nominates Abhishek to represent TMC in Centre’s global...
21 May 2025 1:23 AM ISTHC orders fresh probe into ‘kidney racket’ involving a city hospital
21 May 2025 1:22 AM ISTTMC team to visit J&K border areas from May 21–23
21 May 2025 1:22 AM IST‘Indian forces acted like skilled surgeons during Op Sindoor’
21 May 2025 1:21 AM IST