Articles on Economics & Economy

India: Union & State budgets search engine

Published by Vivek February 21st, 2008 in Current Affairs, Economics & Economy, Governance, India and Social Policy. 0 Comments

A search engine to search India’s Union budgets and State budgets (available) in one click

A wealth of materials is available online today about budgets in India.  Unfortunately they are dispersed across dozens of websites that take time to find.  This search engine will enable to to search official budget websites of Government of India and [...]

Economics for beginners: An unconventional list of books, audio, video

Published by Vivek February 20th, 2008 in Books, articles & talks and Economics & Economy. 2 Comments

“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 believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” – [...]

Are we asking the right questions on Social Security & Medicare?

Published by Vivek June 2nd, 2007 in Economics & Economy and Social Policy. 0 Comments

Pertinent questions are being asked about the sustainability of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the US…but the causes and options are not articulated fully
Since there is a lot of hullaboo about the “crisis” in social security I tried to find what it’s all about. To my considerable surprise, I found that if the [...]

Collected works on Anthropology and institutional economics

Published by Vivek May 20th, 2007 in Books, articles & talks and Economics & Economy. 0 Comments

Anthropology and institutional economics
Rating: 3 out of 5

Editor: James M. Acheson
Year: 1994
Category: Anthropology, economics, institutional economics
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0819195952

This volume is one of the rare collection of papers I found looking at Anthropology and institutional economics. Surprisingly, though the two have a large scope for collaboration, there [...]

“Consequentialist perspective” of economists and Human Rights

Published by Vivek April 15th, 2007 in Economics & Economy, Human rights and Podcasts & webcasts. 0 Comments

Is the language of rights useful in discussing poverty? Economists seem to claim these days that the rights approach may undermine the cause
I encountered many economists writing tentatively about human rights these days. Perhaps there is an extensive literature about it already. The main premise of arguments seems to be while the ideals [...]

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