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ECONOMICS: How ‘rational’ behaviour begets recession
Much of the economic theory in textbooks implicitly rests on two mutually reinforcing propositions. The first of these is Say’s Law — “supply creates its own demand”. When an entrepreneur produces a good, he expends ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Window-dressed boards
In his Power Point presentation at the Nasscom leadership summit in February 2007 a professor of management from an Ivy League business school quoted from a McKinsey survey of 854 independent directors in the US in which just 52 per cent of ...

POLITICS: The many definitions of ‘culture’
The attack on the Mangalore pub by the activists of Sri Ram Sene, self-appointed guardians of Indian culture, has sent alarm bells ringing across the country. Relentless relaying of footage on the attack, in which two young women are ...

SECURITY: Time to act, not just react
If the global financial crisis and the Mumbai carnage were not bad enough, the new year saw the ‘lid’ being blown off the big ‘Satyam scandal’. Corporate coffers have, no doubt, borne the brunt of these ...

EDITORIAL: The froth drains
The corporate results for the third quarter of 2008-09 only confirm what has been suspected for quite some time: a moderate growth in sales volume and a huge squeeze in profit margins. One need hardly be surprised by the dramatic decline in ...

LETTERS: Auto LPG
The last price reduction in auto LPG happened in December 2008. Despite crude prices falling consistently, auto LPG prices have not been cut since ...

LETTERS: Audit rotation
The Big Four accounting firms are known for their lax auditing in the US and Europe and have been fined too many times by various authorities to keep count ...


Columnists: C Gopinath Harish Bijoor G Chandrashekhar S Murlidharan Sharad Joshi Mohan Murti S Balakrishnan Bharat Savur B S Raghavan Ganesh Challa Bhanoji Rao Swati T Banusekar Ramanujam Sridhar Ranabir Ray Choudhury Rasheeda Bhagat P.V. Indiresan P Devarajan S Muralidhar R K Raghavan B Venkatesh S Venkitaramanan




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