Tag: Economics

2017 Nobel Prize for Economics goes to Richard H Thaler

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...

France’s Jean Tirole wins Nobel Economics Prize

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

US duo win Nobel Economics Prize for ‘match-making’

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

US tipped again for Nobel Economics Prize, as Europe lags

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...

Talented Gilgit girl makes it to London School of Economics

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

LSE conference discusses ideas for economic growth

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

Fisal glooms of Annual Economic Report 2011

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...

Economics of political rallies

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

Institutional economics for Imran Khan

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

Improving corporate regulation

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

The Economics of Happiness

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...

The economics of peace in Afghanistan

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...

The economics of happiness

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...

Fallacies of consumer economics

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...

HSSC-II Home Economics exam 2011 results declared

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...

The strange world of a priori economics

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

More on tragedy and economics

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...