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Democracy needs a thriving civil society, free and fair media, solid independent institutions, and a dynamic political process to flourish. With all its tribulations, India has still managed to do quite well in the 73 years of its independence...

Pride and guilt are an integral part of human lives. Often, they serve as motivation to work, for example, by pushing us to put in a few hours of labor instead of free-riding on the work done by the peers in a group project. Sometimes, these emotions do the opposite...

Founders are an essential part of any firm. They play a critical role in the setting up and subsequent evolution of the venture. Despite the importance of founders within these ventures, estimates suggest that one or more founders depart within the first few years in at least half of multi-founder firms. In this article, we see how founder exits affect firms' performance and the factors that determine the extent of such effects...

Traditionally, it was thought that the Earth would automatically take care of any amount of waste because of its infinite regenerative capacity. However, we now know that the Earth does have an unlimited regenerative capacity...

De-Economist's Editors Rohith (henceforth R) and Anuradha (henceforth A) sat down with Dr. Dipanjan Chakraborty (henceforth D) from the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems to discuss his work, his career and how HCI is an essential component of computer engineering. We present the interview below...

Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) was a randomized social experiment sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the 1990s among 4600 low-income families with children living in high-poverty public housing projects...

Generally, most humans are inherently impulsive and weak-willed. For example, instead of starting on our assignment, we might decide to watch an extra episode of our favourite show. This eventually turns into a whole season (or more) in one sitting. We naturally seem to prefer postponing tasks for the future, rather than completing them immediately. This habit of putting things off repeatedly is known as procrastination, and is fairly widespread among university students...

Do you remember getting polio drops in your childhood? Have you felt the contrast between your parents’ school times and your schooling? Times have changed, so has the economy when it comes to Education and Health. This article aims to shed light on one of the most important fields of economics, in terms of productivity and human capital...

Economics is the study of scarcity. If every person had all they needed, there would be no need for this subject; however, we already know that this situation will never happen. Human beings have unbounded desires with very limited resources. Therefore, we must optimize what we can produce from these resources...

Economic History is the academic study of economies or economic events of the past. It focuses on understanding the institutional dynamics of major economic events in the context of production, capital, labour, and the events impact on the society, state, culture...

Finance is a very broad term. We usually define it based on what we perceive and other services we perform in our daily lives. The term is actually used to describe activities associated with banking, leverage (debt), credit, capital markets, money, and investments. Basically, finance constitute money management and the process of acquiring the needed funds...

A long-standing question in economics concerns whether human beings can grow and become richer without harming the environment. Are pollution, the greenhouse effect, and smog the by-products of economic development, or are they deterrents to growth itself?

In October 2020, Dr. Dushyant Kumar was appointed the Head of Department of the Department of Economics and Finance, BPHC. Chetan and Revanth, De-Economist editors and B3 2019 students, joined him on Google Meet for a brief interview. We present the transcript below...

The Planning Commission of India, since its formation on 15 March 1950, supervised the five-year plan for the economic development of the country. However, in 2015, the 65-year-old Planning Commission was dissolved, and a policy think tank – NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) took its place...

The economy comprises of many different bodies, households, and corporations that each have a unique role. While that is true, no single body has as much stake and influence in the economy as the government does. The decisions taken by the government have a massive impact on any economy, no matter its size or sophistication...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India is a statutory regulatory body that was established on April 12, 1992, the year in which the ₹ 5,000 crores Harshad Mehta securities scam hit Indian stock markets. The main aim was to protect the interests of investors in securities, to promote the development and regulation of the securities market and for matters connected to it...

Four score and seven months ago, whilst the nation was witnessing the “Modi-wave” in its original iteration, Modi championed the cause for free trade on his campaign trail. For far too long he said, our nation had kept its economy incarcerated and that liberal trade policies were necessary to unshackle the nations growth, fast forward to 2020 and we all know how our Prime Minister feels about liberal policies these days...

The Chief Economic Adviser is a post in the Government of India which could be considered equivalent to the rank of Secretary of the Government of India. The CEA is head of Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The CEA is either selected from the inside of government (normally among the senior IAS officers) or from the outside, like some professors of economics...

The primary role of a Stock Exchange is to facilitate and regulate the transfer of funds and securities between investors and businesses. The CEO of a stock exchange, belonging to its governing body, has complete jurisdiction over the various functions of the stock exchange...

Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation is a ministry of Government of India concerned with coverage and quality aspects of statistics released. It was formed on 15th of October, 1999, when Department of Statistics and the Department of Program Implementation merged. It is responsible to covering statistics released in the country...