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The Feminist Economics Critique to Neo-Classical Economics
Read more: The Feminist Economics Critique to Neo-Classical EconomicsAll the societal norms, rules and frameworks have a bearing on the market as the market is not a black box existing outside the society but inside it. Gender, here, is a key stimulus in determining the economic outcomes for an individual.
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What Happens To Employees When a Company Goes Bankrupt?
Read more: What Happens To Employees When a Company Goes Bankrupt?During bankruptcy, the employees are often seen as expendable. During the procedure, their savings and pensions are spent on survival (of the company). Can the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code change that?
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Urban Mobility Crisis: India Needs to Look Beyond Metro Rail Systems
Read more: Urban Mobility Crisis: India Needs to Look Beyond Metro Rail SystemsIn the second of a series of essays on urban mobility in India, Sudarshan and Mukundan systematically gauge the viability of responses by governments across the country to the current urban mobility crisis, focusing on the challenges faced by metro-rail systems in the country.
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Does Common Prosperity mean Economic Prosperity?
Read more: Does Common Prosperity mean Economic Prosperity?Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have resolved to make China into a socialist state by putting emphasis on “common prosperity” to combat the yawning wealth gap. This article will examine if such a policy will indeed help to reduce inequality or if China will soon witness an economic tumult. Is this policy a…
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No Digital Currency for Digital India?
Read more: No Digital Currency for Digital India?What is all the fuss about the government’s attempt to ban cryptocurrencies? What shall be the implications if the government is successful in doing so? Does it mean that India will be a devoid of a digital currency while the rest of the world adapts itself to all technological developments? Let’s see.
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Going Beyond GDP: Women and Unpaid Household Work
Read more: Going Beyond GDP: Women and Unpaid Household WorkFor centuries, the burden of unpaid household work (UHW) has unequally been borne by our women. Kamal Hassan’s recently proposed to pay women for their domestic work. The idea originally comes from proposals by Western feminists to monetise household work but the cost of such labour is high in the west, unlike India. In this…
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Contract Farming — the need and apprehensions
Read more: Contract Farming — the need and apprehensionsContract farming, an existing practice has gained new resonance with the new bill that was introduced. Though a tool for progression, it is wrapped with a cover of uncertainty. This article attempts to share a few perspectives to understand the need and issues with contract farming based on past experiences.
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Are the new Farm Bills Exploitative?
Read more: Are the new Farm Bills Exploitative?This article will analyze the Farm Bills 2020, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Bypass Bill, and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill. This article seeks to identify if the farm bills are a boon or the bane for the economy.
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CONSUMING NATIONALISM FOR A GREEN CONSCIOUSNESS
Read more: CONSUMING NATIONALISM FOR A GREEN CONSCIOUSNESSIn this article, Vanshika Mittal talks about how nationalism determines (anti)consumption patterns in India. She shows how consumers inherently believe that they are being environmentally conscious when their consumption is motivated by nationalist ideologies. Ironically, not only is that not always the case but such (anti)consumption also results in other disputes.
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Lakshmi Vilas Bank: from Failed Mergers to DBS
Read more: Lakshmi Vilas Bank: from Failed Mergers to DBSYet another bank is in trouble after PMC Bank and Yes Bank in the span of just two years. The question is what is common in these crises and how is the RBI responding?
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“I’ll have one rich country please?” – The Recipe for Development
Read more: “I’ll have one rich country please?” – The Recipe for DevelopmentIn this article the author compares the two competing arguments about the determinants of development (geography versus institutions) to comment upon the impact of colonial rule on the present state of Indian education.
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PART II: Economic Development, but at what cost?
Read more: PART II: Economic Development, but at what cost?In this article, the author evaluates the economic reforms of 1991 and talks about how they were lopsided as well, focussing on unemployment and exploitation of labour and environment.
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