"Economist" tag
india-growth-numbers-marketexpress-in

Let’s not cheer India’s growth recovery yet

India’s GDP growth recovered to 6.3% in 2QFY18 from a three-year low of 5.7% in 1QFY18. On the supply side, the growth recovery came on the back of a rebound in manufacturing activity to 7%...

dr-ashok-v-desai-marketexpress-in

Some achievement at last

Some achievement at last Journalism has its occasions for consternation. I have been sued for defamation. The publisher washed his hands off, and asked me to face the case on my own. Luckily, there are...

Ronald coase

Ronald Coase:Uncommon common sense & a towering contrarian!

Tribute to one of the intellectual giants of contemporary economics – Ronald Coase (aged 103), who passed away last month. Coase himself acknowledged in a speech a few years after winning the 1991 Sveriges Riksbank...

The Economics of Economics

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who...