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Economic Planning Series: Achievements & missed opportunities

27 Feb 2022 1:16 AM IST
Building on the success of the first plan, economic planners — emphasising on the socialist pattern — decided to rely on heavy industries for...

First-Five Year Plan: Buttressing primary pillars

20 Feb 2022 12:35 AM IST
Although the first Five-Year Plan well surpassed the goals it had set for agriculture and irrigation in the public sector, it left urban planning and...

Economic planning series: Roots of Five-Year Plans

12 Feb 2022 10:57 PM IST
Contrary to the norm in the West where market drove the allocation of resources, India preferred to go with centralised planning even before the...

Champions of 'natural experiment'

8 Jan 2022 11:23 PM IST
Empirical and methodological applications introduced by David Edward Card, Joshua David Angrist and Guido Wilhelmus Imbens enabled effective...

Innovators in auction theory

1 Jan 2022 11:15 PM IST
Apart from using game theory to design alternative auction formats, Paul Robert Milgrom and Robert Butler Wilson carried out influential works in...

Experimentalists & poverty eradication

25 Dec 2021 11:10 PM IST
While Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Esther Duflo collaborated to bring out greater synergy between theory and practice of policy intervention, Michael...

Pacesetters in macroeconomics

18 Dec 2021 10:56 PM IST
While William Dawbney Nordhaus incorporated climate change in economic models and emphasised on cooperative multinational policies for tackling the...

The Nobel Series: Exponent of behavioural economics

11 Dec 2021 9:27 PM IST
Richard H Thaler developed Herbert Simon’s concept of bounded rationality to recognise cognitive biases in decision making, apart from assessing the...

The welfarist academician

27 Nov 2021 11:46 PM IST
Angus Deaton is known for extensively analysing data around individual consumer choices, and linking it with aggregate consumption, to shape policies...

Proponent of industrial organisation

21 Nov 2021 12:16 AM IST
Building upon the concepts regulating monopolies and oligopolies, Jean Tirole used game theory and industrial organisation to present a general theory...

Exponents of asset pricing

14 Nov 2021 12:23 AM IST
While Eugene Francis Fama attributed the difficulty in short-run predictions to efficient markets and Robert James Shiller contradicted him by holding...

The matchmakers

6 Nov 2021 10:24 PM IST
While the prolific game theorist Lloyd Stowell Shapley laid out the theoretical ground in the form of Gale-Shapley algorithm, Alvin Elliot Roth...
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