Urbanomics

Monday, March 31, 2008

Commodities market anomalies

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The NYT reports that economists are baffled by the ever-widening disparity between the actual cash market prices of foodgrains like corn, s...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

Incentives in Elections

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The logic in this post is slightly vague at at a few places. Though I am still searching for a few answers, I am convinced there are ways ou...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Town Planning in our cities

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The Town Planning wing in any Municipal Corporation is like the perennial whipping dog, most often rightly so and many times for the not so ...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Higher Education trends

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Harvard University has finally taken the plunge, and it was only to be expected. In an industry/activity, where the quality of students is t...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Inflation and growth concerns in India

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Two sets of recently released figures on the economy - the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and inflation - have set off an interesting ...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Economics of ethanol as a biofuel

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By enacting the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the US Government legislated into force a whole new economy in biofuels, whose...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Another bubble in the making

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The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the resultant loosening of monetary policy, so as to ease the credit squeeze, may actually end up blowing ...
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