Miscellany

Understanding cultural persistence and change

When does culture persist and when does it change? This column examines a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology literature: the variability of the environment from one generation to...

Paola Giuliano Nathan Nunn
07 March, 2018

Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze

I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time...

Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
28 March, 2018

Fundamental errors in the voting booth margins

Psychologists have long documented that we over-attribute people's actions to innate characteristics rather than to circumstances. This column shows that when we commit this ‘fundamental attribution...

Edward Glaeser Giacomo Ponzetto
17 November, 2017

Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze

Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
28 March, 2018

Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity

Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr...

Farzana Afridi
12 March, 2018

Understanding cultural persistence and change

Paola Giuliano Nathan Nunn
07 March, 2018

Economics among the road scholars

Jholawala Economics’ is a derogatory term that the urban elites use to dismiss the arguments of social activists without having to contend with them. However, some of the jholawalas are indeed first...

Jean Drèze
22 December, 2017

Fundamental errors in the voting booth margins

Edward Glaeser Giacomo Ponzetto
17 November, 2017

Introducing a new feature: – ‘Explainers’

Our day-to-day lives are tossed around due to economic changes, resulting sometimes from government policies and sometimes by unidentifiable forces of the world economy. Governments always label every...

Ashok Kotwal
16 October, 2017

Using drones for social sector research

While drones have historically been used in military operations, their application for peaceful purposes has risen steeply in recent years. In this note, representatives from Outline India - a resear...

Prerna Mukharya
19 June, 2017

Kenneth Arrow, 1921-2017

In a tribute to Kenneth Arrow, Debraj Ray, Professor of Economics at NYU, outlines the contributions of the late Nobel laureate to economic thought.

Debraj Ray
02 March, 2017

John Nash and modern economic theory

In a tribute to John Nash, Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor at Delhi School of Economics, outlines the revolutionary contributions of the late Nobel laureate to economic thought.

Parikshit Ghosh
04 June, 2015

Clicks and editorial decisions: How does popularity shape online news coverage?

Identifying whether newspaper editors focus on what is ‘newsworthy’ or what is ‘trendy’ when choosing stories is important for the design of media regulation. This column shows how the popula...

Ananya Sen Pinar Yildirim
18 May, 2015

On ideology

In recent debates over issues such as the National Food Security Bill or the use of the Unique Identification, we seem to find people with similar values in opposing ideological camps. This editorial ...