Tag: Economics

STOCKHOLM: The Nobel Prize for Economics was on Monday awarded to Richard H. Thaler. Thaler is a professor at the University of Chicago for his...

The award of this year’s prize to a French national marked a departure from American dominance on the list of laureates.

US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their work on the functioning of markets and how...

Americans top the list of favourites for Monday’s Nobel Economics Prize, an award that increasingly rarely seems to go to a European. The European Union...

Munira Shaheen, a brilliant student, seems to have set an example that movers and shakers can emerge from the grassroots level by striving sincerely...

Amidst distinguished economists, academicians and policymakers from both the national and international platform, the Lahore School of Economics hosted its eighth annual conference on...

Pakistan was celebrating the 135th birth anniversary of its founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah; right after the clock struck 12 am, all the...

Electioneering time has arrived once again. The season for big rallies, it seems, has started in real earnest. If there is one clarion call...

What marked 30th October as a day of ‘revolution’ for the famous and furious ‘PTI’ leader was the centre of several debates, discussion and...

It is indeed a favourable development that further improvement in corporate regulation is on the list of priorities before the government. The Securities and...

We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatisfaction. In the United...

Suicide bombings, assassinations of top Afghan leaders, brutal attacks on Charikar and other places close to Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, and a rapid increase in...

We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatisfaction. In the United...

Consumer spending is not just a vital part of a country’s GDP but also signifies the ability of people with disposable incomes to purchase...

Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) Controller of Examinations Muhammad Imran Khan Chishti on Thursday announced the result of Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC)-II...

A strange species of economic analysis pervades contemporary mainstream economic thinking. I also posit that this mode happens to be the globally dominant economic...

My last piece for Profit, “The tragicomic science”, tried to bring the insights of Aristotle’s Poetics to bear on the praxis of economics. This...