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ECONOMY: Economic oneupmanship and its hubris
Cornell economist Kaushik Basu, in one of his newspaper articles, once asked why everyone held an opinion on economics but not on aircraft design. He was arguing that economics was a specialisation requiring technical skills that were no ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Is capitalism passé?
The unfolding financial and economic crisis that has engulfed the world has brought up a question: Is capitalism, at least in its present form, passé?When a big financial crisis broke out in East Asia in the late 1990s, some ...

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY: Lighting up rural homes
Over 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity even today. As per the Ministry of Power, 4.9 lakh out of the six lakh villages in the country were electrified as on March 31, 2008. Even today, in more than a ...

EDITORIAL: Auto recovery
If the auto industry is not quite over the moon with the smart turn around in sales in February, it is understandable. . The industry’s confidence had been badly dented by the falling sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles, with ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: The reverse brain-drain
A lot of media build-up has been given to a paper on the so-called ‘reverse brain-drain’ or ‘reverse immigration’ prepared by Mr Vivek Wadhwa, a research fellow at the Labour and Work Life Programme of the Harvard Law ...

LETTERS: Election Commission
The President has rejected the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner to remove one of the members from the Commission because of his alleged proximity to a party in power. But the fundamental question about the integrity ...

LETTERS: Optimism on GDP growth rate
An estimate of 7.1 per cent GDP growth for the Indian economy in FY09 implies a growth rate of 6.4 per cent in second half of the current financial ...


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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