Economics needs greater humility, a better sense of history, and more diversity
JAYATI GHOSH
The need for drastic change in the economics discipline has never been so urgent. Humanity faces existential crises, with planetary health and environmental challenges becoming...
Photograph Source: European Commission (Dati Bendo)
A group of young people in Paris are enjoying a drink in a café on an unseasonably warm evening. The conversation drifts into politics, but—as one young woman says—“Let’s not talk about France.” The...
Rajesh Komath
In Bramayugam, directed by Rahul Sadasivan and co-written with TD Ramakrishnan, Mammootty challenges Malayalam filmmakers to push boundaries. He portrays Koduman Potti, the last survivor of a crumbling mana, interacting with Arjun Ashokan's Thevan, a low-caste singer seeking...
Paul Street
Image by Jade Koroliuk.
As we approach the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s worth reflecting on who bears the main responsibility for the subsequent “inter-imperialist US-Russia proxy war,” an epic slaughter that produced 500,000 deaths and injuries...
Walden Bello
Photograph Source: Marcin Monko – CC BY 2.0
When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Davos was the...
Kottayam: The social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme needs to be implemented with the assistance of an independent jury system to enhance its effectiveness, as emphasized by Dr. TM Thomas Isaac, former Finance Minister. He was...
There couldn’t be a better metaphor than what a Chinese analyst used to characterise the NATO while commenting on its secretary general Jens Stoltenberg’s recent remark that the West does not seek war with Russia but should still “prepare...
One of the regional heavyweights in South Asia after India, Pakistan is making headlines on the issues of political instability, economic crises and non-traditional security threats. A recent jail sentence of 10 years has been meted out to a...
Increasingly, the United States is caught in a Catch-22 with tension mounting in the Red Sea, Israel maintaining unabated its assault on the Gaza Strip, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) possibly ruling that Israel may be committing...
ARGENTINA’S new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar...
