Global Financial Crisis: A Perspective from India

In the last two years we’ve heard a lot about the global financial crisis. Two years hence we now need to ask how the global financial crisis effected India and why?

Street Vendors Policy: Recommendations from Roundtable

The outcome of Policy Roundtable with MPs organized by Centre for Civil Society on 18 Nov 2009, Delhi:

Set up Central Empowered Committee: We recommend Central Government to set up a ‘Central Empowered…

Dubai Debacle: Role of Credit Rating Agencies

Market responds to a large number of signals emanating from an equally large number of sources and the soundness of the market depends a lot on the reliability of these signals themselves. One of the important signals that market participants rely…

Origins of Wikipedia: Hayek at Auburn by Mark

My friend Mark and my alma mater Auburn University are in news and all that related to my cherished social philosopher and economist F A Hayek, so can’t pass up the opportunity.

Amartya Sen: From English to School Choice?

Sen rightly criticised SP on their manifesto to ban English in UP. Shouldn’t Professor Sen extend the arguments he used to defend teaching of English to also support school choice for the poor? Just replace English with private schools, you see the…