Archive for July 16th, 2014

The role civil society can play in India’s democracy today..

July 16, 2014

An interesting paper by Prof Trilochan Shastri of IIMB.

He looks at some recent trends in India’s elections and how money determines the election outcomes (those having higher assets tend to win) . We need more awareness campaigns to elect the right people. Here civil society needs to play a major role:

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Irrational exuberance one more time?

July 16, 2014

Prof. Shiller in his recent piece sees signs of irrtaional exuberance across asset markets yet again. He calls the article “Booming till it hurts”.

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