Books

I was a bit late to the Instagram party. But I must confess it’s the social network that engages me the most. Facebook has become tiresome, Twitter is ...

Former RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya offers solutions on how the central bank can ensure financial stability in the country

Thomas Piketty’s prescriptions are too radical. Dattopant Thengadi’s vision is more useful for us

Cohabitation with machines is an inevitable future that awaits us. But is it going to be easy?

What are the implications for India in terms of non-formal employment, labour laws and social security?

In Bezonomics, the Fortune jounralist explains how Jeff Bezos has shrewdly changed the way business is done in today’s world

Today’s trade frictions are rooted in wealth inequality within countries, but they can be fixed

Jenny Odell’s take on avoiding the seduction of the online world is a must-read for Covid times

The tech journalist and author of Coders explains how programmers have such a huge impact in our everyday lives

Behavioural scientist Pragya Agarwal spells out how our internal biases shape our worldviews

A clutch of case studies forces us to rethink the way we look at commercialising leisure work online

A minimalist state is all very well, but what about providing services such as health and education?

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman conducts a masterclass in economics, while battling ‘zombie’ ideas

Piketty’s book gives a historical overview of ideological moorings of inequality, but is a bit of a waffle

Mario Livio maps the parallels between the trend of science denial during the time of Galileo Galilei and the world today

We have only 20 more years left to tap the demographic dividend optimally, says economist Santosh Mehrotra

A mathematician demystifies the glitz around stats and exposes the underbelly of the numbers world

Panagariya hails path-breaking steps such as IBC, and cites labour market rigidity as an area of concern

A good record of India’s economic journey, but the bits about the UPA years evoke scepticism

A grim account of the limits to China’s growth — and the grave consequences for the rest of the world

Author Steven Levy on the complex evolutionary journey of the largest social network in the world

Waiting for ‘orders from the top’, instead of taking steps to stop mayhem and rioting, is plain wrong

Seneviratne’s work is useful, but his critique of the ‘western’ model of journalism is unconvincing

While there is no government regulation in India yet regarding cryptocurrencies and blockchain, it is instructive to see what the RBI’s historical ...