
Personal Development

‘As life is like a riding bicycle, you need to keep balance to keep moving’. So it is true that “Bliss lies in

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Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational
In 2002, Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for integrating “insights from psychology into economics, thereby laying the foundation for

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Right Brain Attributes and Skills for a Good Society
What is a good society? It is “what we strive for and we aim to build it around core values: Equality, Democracy and

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Why Study Economics
Suppose you are seeking admission to economics courses and you are provoked to answer the question why you want to do economics, and

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Economics as Science and Ideology
(Book review of Offer, Avner and Gabriel Söderberg, The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy and the Market Turn, Princeton University

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Inside the Firm Review: Part II
Skill Formation and Development Approaches to skill formation among workers within the auto industry appear to be strongly influenced by national traditions. In

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Inside the Firm Review: Part III
Remuneration and Compensation In light of the worldwide slowdown in economic growth and productivity in most advanced industrialized countries in the 1980s and

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Inside the Firm Review: Part IV
Job Security and Staffing Arrangements The automotive factory is not a good place to work; it has always been a tough work environment.

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Inside the Firm Review: Part V
Enterprise Governance, Worker Organisation and Labour-Management Relations Do workers have board-level involvement (i.e. at the level of Board of Directors) in large firms?

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Inside the Firm Review: Part I
Work Organisation and Worker Participation In order to understand why identical firms show up productivity differentials and why in each firm the input-output

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The Truth Behind Half Truths
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”- Oscar

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Choosing the Story You Will Stand In
There are seven life’s most basic questions: Who am I? Why do things happen? What is the purpose of life? What is human

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Being Somebody, Becoming Nobody
A documentary was released recently on the American Richard Alpert metamorphosed into Baba Ram Dass as a disciple of the Indian Neem Karoli

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Medics v/s Marxists on Mental Health
There are numerous mental health songs. I have particularly loved listening to a nice mental illness song of hope, titled Brave, by the

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Charles Wheelan’s Naked Economics
Naked Economics — Undressing the Dismal Science is an insightful book by Charles Wheelan that even a layman can undoubtedly comprehend. Being someone

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CeLevitt & Dubner’s Freakonomics
Following is the chapter-wise summary of the book “Freakonomics” by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Chapter 1: What do schoolteachers and Sumo wrestlers