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The Great Indian Electoral Tamasha
Governmental elections all over the world are quite important an affair in the sense that such elections satisfy the constitutional demand for a head of state, or that of a federal unit, to be elected on grounds of popular consensus. In India, electoral seasons are quite a spectacle to behold- from the campaigning process to […]
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Long-Run Macroeconomic Growth over Short-Term High Growth: An Analysis
The economic policy of any country is often an essential parameter to judge the advancement of the State. A good economic policy often concentrates its attention on the attainment of macroeconomic stability, which in due time bears consequential reaps for the nation as a whole. On the contrary, a myopic policy can be effectively described […]
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The Economics of Sustainable Growth
The names of the winners for the 2018 Nobel award for Economics have been announced. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel was divided equally between William D. Nordhaus and Paul Romer, both of American descent, for their contributions in integrating climate-change and technological analysis with long-run macroeconomic analysis. While […]
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Reflections on the 175th year of The Economist
In September of 1843, the much-cherished magazine of today, The Economist, was started. In 2018, it thus celebrates its one hundred and seventy-fifth year; an appreciably long way to go for any magazine of its kind. James Wilson, founder of The Economist, adhered by certain fundamental principles- such as the being champion of free trade, […]
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Preparing for a freshman year
All over the world, the seasons at the start of the year, spanning from February to May, is somewhat mundane. In India, however, this is the time for the exam season- flooding overwhelmingly with undergraduate admission processes pan-India. Millions of students apply for colleges and everyone is made to undergo the heat through various competitive […]
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Why this revamp?
For people who followed my earlier blogs, this is definitely a marked change. IIS-India was my very first blog, the one which I had started in 2012. It has grown exponentially now and has a staggering view counter of nearly 260,000 viewers. This is definitely a big number on all fronts. However, IIS-India lacked a […]
