Flybit Offers Cheapest Flight Tickets in India; Accepts only Bitcoin Payments
Interesting bit of news. As government and policymakers try and thwart digital currency challenge, some companies are trying to offer services accepting payments only in bitcoins. This portal flybit.in...
View ArticleECB continues to warn governments against war on cash…
Not all central banks have joined hands with their respective governments (rather bowed to governments’ pressure) on war on cash. ECB is one such central bank and its unique structure could be a reason...
View ArticleOur minds have been hijacked by phones…
From humans making mobile technology as a slave to mobile technology making humans their slave, the journey has come full circle. Nice piece on how this process of hijacking our minds is being played...
View ArticleExplaining the persistence of the gender wage gap in Japan: The ‘glass...
Prof Hiromi Hara has a piece on gender wage gap in Japan. The research is also quite apt given she works in Japan Women’s University. She says both glass ceiling and sticky floor exist in Japan. The...
View ArticleThe Fed Ups: New Inflationists in town arguing for a higher inflation target…
Prof Larry White has a scathing piece on continued attempts by economists to push central banks into influencing real economy. Recently, several top US econs signed an open letter asking Fed to raise...
View ArticleWe don’t need no homework: The Revolt against Homework is Spreading in US...
The famous Pink Floyd song “We don’t need no education” could also be sang as “We don’t need no homework”. Annie Holmquist has a piece on rising angst against homework: the homework ban is nothing...
View Article70 years of John Bate Clarke Medals: How do you define excellence in economics?
Beatrice Cherrier and Andrej Svorenčík research on 70 years of Clark Medal. They analyse the forces behind the medal and the several arguments over what is meant by excellence in economics: As with...
View ArticleThomas Alva Edison too had a plan for monetary stability…
JP Koning is not just letting us know what economists have written on history of money and monetary system. He is also telling us about what experts from other fields have written about monetary...
View ArticleRBI monetary policy trivia: Why policy has been announced mostly on Tuesdays?
I have been wanting to write this post for a long time but somehow keep forgetting. I have been noticing for a while that RBI prefers to announce its monetary policy decision on mostly Tuesdays. So,...
View ArticleNeed Economics with less math and more Jane Austen…
Interesting piece by Profs. Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, both from Northwestern University. In their passion for mathematically-based explanations, economists have a hard time in at least...
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