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Logical Economics

Karl Marx: The Difference Between Capitalism and Socialism

This post is about Karl Marx’s ideas of capitalism and its certain tenets that seemed philosophically incorrect to him. I came across a…

Jul 2, 2017

Jul 2, 2017

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Logical Economics

Science and Social Science

Following is a quote by Friedrich Hayek from his book “The Counter Revolution of Science” written in 1952. Although terribly verbose, I…

Jun 27, 2017

Science and Social Science

Jun 27, 2017

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Logical Economics

Twitter is in trouble: how can it be rescued?

Everything is about incentives, and Twitter simply doesn’t have enough of them to attract new users.

Feb 15, 2016

Twitter is in trouble: how can it be rescued?

Feb 15, 2016

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Logical Economics

Minimum/maximum temperature laws just like minimum wages?

Having minimum wages in an economy where the labour excess is not very high can be a bad thing. Three previous blog posts highlight this…

Jan 12, 2016

Minimum/maximum temperature laws just like minimum wages?

Jan 12, 2016

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Logical Economics

Veblen Effect and food security in India

Cultural norms have a significant effect on preference of goods. An article in Mint’s Economics Express, a weekly column on issues in the…

Jan 11, 2016

Veblen Effect and food security in India

Jan 11, 2016

Saahil Parekh

The path ahead for economic theory

The Becker Friedman Institute for research in economics at the University of Chicago recently hosted a panel discussion on the role of…

Jan 7, 2016

Jan 7, 2016

Saahil Parekh

The relationship between interest rates and demand for hard cash

A blog post on MoneyIllusion provides an idea of the how monetary economics works.

Jan 4, 2016

Jan 4, 2016

Saahil Parekh

Krugman, Summers and deLong emphasizing the need for economic models

Economists Paul Krugman (NY Times), Lawrence Summers (Harvard University) and Bradford deLong (UC Berkeley) lashed out against the Federal…

Jan 2, 2016

Jan 2, 2016

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Basic Income

Let’s be done with subsidies already: an idea for India

There is a simple way to go about it: a universal basic income

Dec 29, 2015

Let’s be done with subsidies already: an idea for India

Dec 29, 2015

Saahil Parekh
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Logical Economics

Capitalism leads to corporatism?

This article (25% of Donald Trump’s political spending goes to his own companies, Quartz) details Donald Trump’s business of running for…

Dec 29, 2015

Dec 29, 2015

Saahil Parekh

Saahil Parekh

Researcher turned entrepreneur, sustainability enthusiast, urban farmer, columnist at Business Standard (goo.gl/I4KbO5).

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