Home Individual and Family Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques The Price of Time Review: The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor, Penguin, ISBN: 9781802060157, Pages 432 I am a big fan of the Chancellor’s first foray in financial history. In 1999, Chancellor published Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, which made the…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Working Paper Enhancing India’s ‘Ability to Grow’: Making a case for Increased Organised Sector Employment Enhancing India’s ‘Ability to Grow’: Making a case for Increased Organised Sector Employment, particularly the Government Sector India is a low per-capita economy with 1.3 billion people. Given that the population growth is…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques China’s Gilded Age China’s Gilded Age by Professor Yuen Yuen Ang, Cambridge University Press, May 2020 China’s Gilded Age is a fabulous book by University Of Michigan, Professor Yuen Yuen Ang. Part academic treatise and part journalistic, this short read of 200 pages is not only…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Economic Rebound: Understanding high impact Sectors in Manufacturing Economic Rebound: Understanding high impact Sectors in Manufacturing As we know, IIP is a high frequency indicator when compared to quarterly GDP numbers. In this article, IIP information is used to analyze growth in various categories of manufacturing since…
Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices Post COVID-19 Lockdown Business Context: Navigating Strategic and Organizational Choices Summary The paper seeks to explore strategic choices available to firms in the post Covid-19 lockdown period. Using Schön’s approach, this paper characterises the post lockdown as an indeterminate situation,…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Indian Economy Making a Case for the Government to Plays its Economic Role The Indian Economy: Making a Case for the Government to Play its Economic Role Indian Economy Making a Case for the Government to Plays its Economic Role On 14th February 2020, the International Monetary…
Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Strategy – The Journey from Thinking to Execution Strategy – The Journey from Thinking to Execution Derived from the Greek word stratēgia[i] which means “the function of a general”, strategy is often used to describe a high-level path to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty and was…
Home Individual and Family Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russel, Viking, October 2019, Pages 352 There is no shortage of books that discuss the dangers of AI and how AI will take over the world, as…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies The Indian Growth Paradox: Disconcerting Divergence between Consumer Confidence and Industrial Outlook Surveys The Indian Growth Paradox: Disconcerting Divergence between Consumer Confidence and Industrial Outlook Surveys Observations Summary A structural break in business’ assessment of current and the future business and economic conditions, i.e., post the discontinuity…
Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper Compensation and Incentive Structures: A Perspective Paper The seemingly simple questions of what and how to compensate employees form the core of how employees and indeed the firms and economic systems perform. They are also at the intersection of human nature (what motivates…