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From winners who are famous to those who have been forgotten and western domination in Nobel, a list of the must knows of the Nobel prize (Representational Image)

Nobel Prize for Economics goes to Richard H Thaler

The Nobel committee said Thaler's work shows how human traits affect individual decisions as well as market outcomes.

9 Oct 2017 9:54 AM

Paul Romer (Photo: AFP)

Economics Nobel: From esoteric to practical

The Nobel Prize in Economics has mostly tended to go to scholars doing esoteric research in economics.

15 Oct 2018 7:19 PM

As with the other Nobels, nominations and deliberations are kept secret for 50 years, so its nearly impossible to know which way the prize committee is leaning each year. (Photo: AP)

Climate, development tipped for Nobel economics prize

The Nobel economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank "in memory of Alfred Nobel" and first awarded in 1969.

8 Oct 2018 4:27 AM

On International Womens Day, going beyond clich©s, one must look around, go back in time and analyse to be truly humbled into realising at how much wiser, saner, smarter and productively higher in the ladder of economics the women around us are. (Representational Image)

Sriram Karri | India's women can offer lessons in smart economics

Most modern lessons on diversifying a portfolio would not surprise any Indian household whose economics are steered by...

8 March 2023 6:35 PM

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says that US-China conflict to impair global trade which is vital for Indias re-opening. (PTI Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | Who'll be awarded the next Nobel Prize in Economics?

The calibre of Indian economics faculties is much to be desired and in our hothouses only mediocrity breeds.

28 Aug 2023 6:35 PM

The income-tax department had booked Mr Bhandari under the new act, called the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015. (Photo: PTI)

Mystic Mantra: The value of money

People who become very crude in their understanding start worshipping money.

28 Feb 2018 6:38 PM

The petition claimed that most of the central and state universities across the country allow research scholars to participate in elections unlike the Delhi University.

Delhi University's 1st cut-off list out, 98.75% for BA at LSR

This year, the cut-off will be on the basis of the best of four subjects, according to the DU.

18 Jun 2018 11:17 PM

Dr Sudipta Sarangis The Economics of Small Things (Twitter@PenguinIndia)

Clever treatise marries economics, storytelling

Dr Sudipta Sarangi weaves anecdotes and economic incidents with fascinating studies in her book The Economics of Small...

20 Feb 2021 10:45 PM

Raj Kumar Vaish had enrolled in MA (Economics) in 2015. (Photo: ANI/ Twitter)

Meet the man who earned postgraduate degree in Economics at 98

Raj Kumar Vaish was awarded a masters degree in economics by Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad at the convocation function...

27 Dec 2017 7:21 AM

The focus was not on rote learning, but on applying that information critically.

CBSE: No more open book exams

Class 9, 11 students can no longer carry books to exam halls.

3 Feb 2017 10:12 PM

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram. (Photo: AFP/File)

Note ban adviser needs elementary course in economics: Chidambaram

By demonetisation, the Modi government created a myth that all cash is black money and all black money is cash, he said.

21 Dec 2016 3:50 AM