Urbanomics

The decades long secular decline in real interest rates has been taking a toll on savers. The pay-as-you-go, defined benefit pension schem...

The erosion of values and institutional relationships that underpin capitalism has been a constant theme of this blog. The cozy and entren...

FT reports that China is engaged with 18 high-speed railway projects worth $143 bn across the world. A snapshot is below. I think tha...

I have two long-held views on public policy making. One, even assuming the inevitable cognitive biases like hyperbolic discounting, we liv...

The breakdown of the Philips curve relationship between inflation and unemployment has been among the major casualties of recent macroecon...

1. Fascinating work by Johnny Miller to highlight segregation in cities using birds-eye view photographs taken using drones . Such ph...

From Janak Nabar in Livemint, Huawei’s R&D expenditure (around $6.5 billion) is about the same or more than that of Indian industry...