India?s official position on climate change?that the country is too ?poor? to ?afford? binding cuts on carbon emissions?hasn?t changed a…
Can past nuclear explosions advance art history?A former curator from the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg believes they can.
By now India should have been in the middle of restructuring social security. But look where we are stuck.
Be suspicious about extra regulation. That thumb rule would certainly seem to apply to the government?s bright idea of creating…
In his article, Dhiraj Nayyar has well said that an economic crisis is often the best time to implement major…
Goldman Sachs makes three unusual points while suggesting 10 things that India needs to do to become an economic superpower…
Observing how people are responding now to higher fuel prices gives us some idea about how people will respond to…
The world may be facing its first steel shortage in decades and it must be frustrating for the Indian steel…
Does the Union finance ministry follow a rational taxation policy? Apparently, that looks doubtful if one compares its approach to…
Bill Gates kept his 2006 promise that he will quit from his day-to-day work at Microsoft?a company he founded in…
Bill Gates? speech on creative capitalism was misguided in two important ways?it made a false accusation about traditional capitalism, and…
Congressmen nervous about elections should concede that if they do badly, reforms can?t be blamed. They haven?t done any reform.…
It is true that upstream oil companies are making unusual profits from high oil prices. But that is no reason…
The government, as reported in The Indian Express yesterday, is not keen on the Ratan Tata-chaired Investment Commission?s suggestion that…
The basic idea, which my International Economics students will recognize immediately, is that exchange rate changes create many direct and…
The acquisition of the BK Modi-controlled Spice Telecom by the AV Birla group-controlled Idea Cellular is a good outcome, both…
Basel-II will be crucial for Indian banks. While the norms have already been made applicable to domestic banks having overseas…
It?s all over the library and bookish blogs that Cody?s, Berkeley?s great bookstore, has closed its doors.
