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China new home prices fall less in Dec on promotions, easing curbs

China's new home prices fell more slowly in December than a month earlier, official data showed on Saturday.

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-9

Every time I have contributed to EW and its successor EPW, I have felt like paying a small part of my debt to Sachin Chaudhuri

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-8

Looking back, my early interest in politics might have something to do with one of my maternal uncles who was a political prisoner of the British

An award for certainty

Economics Nobel laureates this year have clear answers

Elections and 'wallet economics': Does economic under-performance matter?

There are instances - both from national and state elections - of economic under-performers being returned to power, and also of parties being thrown out despite good performance, writes T N Ninan

DU first cut-off list: JMC announces 100% Psychology, 98.5% For Economics

The cut-offs are expected to be higher than last year as over 70,000 students students have scored more than 95 per cent in CBSE class 12 board exams

Economical with economics

Why do latter-day economists write everything but economics in their autobiographies?

Contradictory policies will not revive the labour market and consumption

Of the three variables that it is targeting - higher private investment, stability and fair wages - the government has to discard at least one

Economics of pandemic-affected Olympics

Atanu Biswas tells you all about the economics of holding Olympic Games.

The 'pandemic' we know, is coming soon

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The mistake crypto crowd makes: it doesn't understand monetary economics

Crypto has been a highly unusual asset class for its entire history, but it won't act like that forever.

Political game-changers in economics

Book review of Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics

Why dividing central bankers into hawks and doves misses the big picture

Reducing central bankers to caricatures risks missing the big picture. These days, policy makers have to be more nimble

Best of BS Opinion: The power of narrative, a lost battle, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Auction of public resources and profit

Any sale must be designed to serve the common good, not to maximise revenues

Indians' love for things foreign

…is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19?

Best of BS Opinion: Funny side of economics, coronavirus spread, and more

For many sides of coronavirus, read on. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up the views.

The funny side of economics

No other social science discipline can beat economics and economists when it comes to funniness

Don't waste this crisis: There's no more room to ignore bad economics

A crisis is when a govt can expect people to make sacrifices for the larger good. The danger of doing nothing is that growth of 6% or less becomes the norm, not the unacceptable, writes T N Ninan

Letter to BS: Time for economists to leave GDP alone and focus on happiness

More than in economics, development needs to be in human ethos