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Why are India's Anti-Poverty Policies Failing?
Poverty is traditionally defined as the state or condition in which a person or a community lacks the financial or physical resources to...
Shreedaya Arvind - Guest Writer
8 min read


How a Flower Crashed The Economy
“Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maid-servants, even chimney-sweeps, and old clothes-women, dabbled in tulips.” ~...
Prratham Kamat
3 min read


The Planning Fallacy
Assume you have an assignment due on Saturday, a week from today. You have done several assignments of this length before and it...
Dhruv Talesara
3 min read


The 5 Trillion Dollar Summit
After winning elections for the second time, the Modi Sarkaar set a target of making India a 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2024....
Prratham Kamat
4 min read


Importance of Classical Economics
Classical economics is a school of thought in economics that flourished primarily in Britain. It was developed shortly after the birth...
Dhruv Talesara
2 min read


Transactional Utility & 'Good Deals'
Transactional utility is a term to describe the happiness a consumer gets from the perceived value of the deal. 'Transactional utility'...
Dhruv Talesara
4 min read


IRRELEVANCE OF THE LAFFER CURVE
“It should be known that at the beginning of the dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the...
Dhruv Talesara
4 min read


BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
The Canadian Government introduced a welfare scheme called the Canada Learn Bond. The scheme was largely for the poor of the country....
Prratham Kamat
3 min read


SUNK COSTS & CONSUMER EXPLOITATION
Atul pays ₹5000 for a football class that he is supposed to attend thrice a week. After a few weeks, he realises that he has a ton of...
Dhruv Talesara
3 min read


UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
What if the government took the responsibility to pay its citizens a minimum amount of money from time to time without imposing any...
Prratham Kamat
3 min read


THE FRAMING EFFECT AND LOSS AVERSION
The framing effect is a cognitive bias where our choices are influenced by the way questions are framed, through different wordings,...
Dhruv Talesara
3 min read


GOVERNMENT SPENDING & THE BROKEN WINDOW FALLACY
Keynesian economics implies that increased government spending is required for an economy pull out of recession because that would lead...
Dhruv Talesara
3 min read


ADVERSE SELECTION & THE LEMON PROBLEM
The cost of dishonesty, therefore, lies not only in the amount by which the purchaser is cheated; the cost also must include the loss...
Prratham Kamat
3 min read


GAME THEORY IN OLIGOPOLIES
An Oligopoly is a type of market dominated by a few firms that produce homogenous products, which are mutually interdependent, and every...
Dhruv Talesara
4 min read


POVERTY TRAPS
A poverty trap is a spiraling mechanism that binds the poorer sections of society within itself, making it very hard to escape. Poverty...
Prratham Kamat
4 min read


PARADOX OF COMPETITION
Paradox of competition in economics is a situation where different measures, which offer a competitive advantage to an individual...
Dhruv Talesara
2 min read
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