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Financial Crises
September 28, 2018, 11:16 PM IST
By Adair Turner Real estate accounts for more than half of all wealth, for the vast majority of increases in wealth, and for the vast majority of lending in all advanced economies. This is the…
September 28, 2018, 11:16 PM IST
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Modern times
September 24, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
By Gyan Prakash Hindi cinema stood for Bombay, even if the city appeared only fleetingly on-screen, and then too as a corrupt and soulless opposite of the simplicity and warmth of the village. I understand…
September 24, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
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Digital Currency
September 23, 2018, 11:37 PM IST
By KEVIN WERBACH These days it’s hard to avoid pronouncements about how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology could change everything (or at least, create massive wealth). Yet there’s an equally loud chorus labelling them a massive scam,…
September 23, 2018, 11:37 PM IST
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Of Images and Reality
September 21, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
By Deepak Chopra Think of a sunset. As soon as you see this image, there is a binary code of photons coding for that experience in your brain. Think of a dark room with the…
September 21, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
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On supply chains
September 19, 2018, 10:54 PM IST
Morris Cohen The US is engaged in trade disputes with China, the EU, Mexico and Canada. We have been told that trade is a zero-sum game with one country’s gain coming at the expense of…
September 19, 2018, 10:54 PM IST
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Managing Finance
September 18, 2018, 10:38 PM IST
By MERVYN KING On the one hand, there are those who argue that our economies are facing unusually strong but temporary ‘headwinds’ that will die down in due course, allowing central banks to raise interest rates…
September 18, 2018, 10:38 PM IST
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Future foretold
September 17, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
By KAZUO ISHIGURO Miss Lucy was now moving her gaze over the lot of us. “I know you don’t mean any harm. But there’s just too much talk like this. I hear it all the time,…
September 17, 2018, 11:11 PM IST
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On Global Debt Levels
September 16, 2018, 10:55 PM IST
By SUSAN LUND The epicentre of the global financial crisis was really the housing market. It started in the US, but it turned out that similar housing bubbles were building in other countries, like the UK,…
September 16, 2018, 10:55 PM IST
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Market Design
September 13, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
By ADAM TOOZE “I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer.” That was Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister, in October 2005. Two years…
September 13, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
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Creative Selection
September 12, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
By Ken Kocienda The way that that Apple worked is different I think than a lot of people think. Steve Jobs didn’t write code. He didn’t design icons or graphics. He didn’t. Steve was an…
September 12, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
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Numbers Theory
September 9, 2018, 11:20 PM IST
By ALEJANDRO DIAZ ET AL For leading and lagging companies alike, the emergence of data analytics as an omnipresent reality of modern organisational life means that a healthy data culture is becoming increasingly important. We-’ve…
September 9, 2018, 11:20 PM IST
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Make every day Mother’s Day
September 7, 2018, 11:36 PM IST
By Sajjan Singh Yadav The results of the latest Sample Registration Survey (SRS) on India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) should bring cheer, reporting as it does a decline in MMR from 167 during 2011-13 to…
September 7, 2018, 11:36 PM IST
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Artificially Intelligent
September 7, 2018, 11:07 PM IST
By JACQUES BUGHIN ET AL Looking at five broad categories of AI, computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning, companies will likely use these tools to varying degrees. Some will…
September 7, 2018, 11:07 PM IST
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Cash-free Sweden
September 4, 2018, 10:49 PM IST
By Jonas Hedman When we look at cash in circulation compared to gross national product, we are below 1% in Sweden. In the US, it’s around 5-7%. In the UK, it’s around 3%. Countries in…
September 4, 2018, 10:49 PM IST
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On Global Change
September 3, 2018, 11:10 PM IST
By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA Sometime in the middle of the second decade of the 21 century, world politics changed dramatically. The period from the early 1970s through the mid-2000s witnessed what Samuel Huntington labelled the ‘third wave’…
September 3, 2018, 11:10 PM IST
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Ecological Worldview
September 2, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
By SATISH KUMAR We don’t need to go very far to learn from nature. Wherever we look with open eyes and a generous heart, we will find nature as teacher. Look at the honeybee; we can…
September 2, 2018, 11:04 PM IST
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Managing innovation
August 31, 2018, 11:34 PM IST
Jonah Sachs There is a natural tendency, especially under pressure, to feel a certain amount of anxiety and fear. But the innovators I spoke to who were able to break out had learnt to reframe…
August 31, 2018, 11:34 PM IST
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Banking on Scarcity
August 30, 2018, 11:17 PM IST
By ADAIR TURNER The dangers of excessive and harmful debt creation are inherent to debt contracts. But they are hugely magnified by the existence of banks, and by the predominance of particular categories of lending. Read…
August 30, 2018, 11:17 PM IST
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Informal enterprise
August 28, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
Shyama Ramani Et al Following the definition by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the informal economy refers to organisations in the informal sector (i.e., those not registered with a local authority and not paying taxes),…
August 28, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
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Indians Transformed
August 27, 2018, 10:51 PM IST
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS At any wedding today of my family or of families like it, a number of the men, perhaps most, would wear kurtas, sherwanis, Nehru jackets — various Indian garments. But in this image…
August 27, 2018, 10:51 PM IST
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