Political moderation is the loser if electors behave more like fans
Goal polarization means rival parties have no incentive to move towards the centre and this is a problem we need to crack
Behavioural economics and the transformation of India’s passport services
The passport services cutting red tape successfully in India demonstrates an aspect well understood in behavioural economics.
2022's tech rumbles will be heard for a long time
The world of technology seems to be going through its own internal skirmishes and, sometimes, outright war.
Election results in the Americas show that democracy is resilient
Recent political developments highlight its self-correcting mechanisms and the power of people as citizens in difficult times
Google faces a big threat from ChatGPT’s answers to queries
A new chatbot from OpenAI took the internet by storm this week, dashing off poems, screenplays and essay answers that were plastered all over Twitter by the breathless technoratti
Can 'Kantara' kindle the hope of a rural renaissance?
Can a Kantara-like ecosystem sustain itself without diluting or corrupting its core—be it the environment or the lifestyle and culture?
G20 should aim to make AIIB and NDB the new IMF and World Bank
China, particularly its state-led Belt and Road Initiative, has now eclipsed the World Bank and the IMF as a source of development credit for countries.
The chocolate exception explained
Chocolates have a spike in demand when income goes up, as with any normal good. But they experience a rise in demand when the income of the consumer goes down too.
RBI worried at low bank participation in UPI
It should worry any central bank or a government which owns several banks if much of the innovations come from outside the mainstream banking system.
RBI's ambivalence risks failure on inflation as well as growth
Its latest review offered no clear policy direction and this ambivalence could risk failure on both inflation and growth fronts
US fantasies of cheap debt will cost American taxpayers dearly
All the talk lately about the size of US national debt is obscuring the real problem: The US government made the wrong bet on interest rates, and that will cost taxpayers for years to come