Urbanomics

There are numerous studies which conclude that the poor tend to spend a far disproportionate share of their meagre incomes on festivals, wed...

The latest edition of the Tour de France is in news more due to a series of doping scandals, than as the great sporting spectacle that it al...

Britain has been ravaged by what is being called the worst floods in the last hundred years. These floods have affected nearly a million peo...

Winner's Curse refers to the problem wherein the winner of auctions often overpays for his successful bid. Winner's Curse arises in ...

Continuing from an earlier post ( What ails our health and education system? ) on the problems faced by the education and health system in d...

There are two interesting articles in The Guardian. First, by Professor Ulrich Beck of the LSE, In the new, anxious world, leaders must lear...

I have read or seen any number of articles and TV discussions, wailing and complaining about how the bureaucratic and political system in In...