Economists

‘Thou shalt not question’: Ashoka University faculty, Leftist propagandists gang up to defend flawed, shoddy research paper that made dubious claims about election manipulation

Glaring flaws, loopholes, and dataset-related mistakes have been pointed out in Das' paper by numerous economists. However, for the Left ecosystem, facts do not matter. What matters is their conviction…

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s name emerges in the list of unauthorised occupants of land belonging to Visva Bharati University

Amartya Sen has allegedly illegally occupied 13 decimals of land, according to list of encroachments prepared by Visva Bharati University

Plagiarism row: Social Media users expose Loksatta editor Girish Kuber for passing off a blog post by UK based economist as his editorial

Loksatta editor Girish Kuber copied UK PhD expert Andrew Lilico's blog post titled "A sense of proportion" and reproduced it in his Marathi editorial piece- 'Covidscope'

Kerala: Left-wing ‘activists’ block Nobel laureate Michael Levitt for hours in his houseboat during Bharat Bandh

Levitt, who received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was on a three-day visit to the state. His boat, anchored near Alappuzha after a trip to Kumarakom, was not allowed to…

Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee brushes aside responsibility for Congress party’s NYAY, says it was not a well-designed scheme

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee was one of the economists who consulted Congress on their ambitious social welfare programme-NYAY

Abhijit Banerjee, economist who advised Congress on the ill-conceived NYAY just won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2019

Economist, Abhijit Banerjee, who advised Congress on the 'free money' NYAY scheme just won a Nobel Prize.

Former Sonia’s man Jean Dreze holds meeting without permission despite Model Code of Conduct, released after being detained

According to the Police Jean was detained for holding a meeting without permission

Amartya Sen lies about the 10% reservation bill, obfuscates on farm loan waivers and fear mongers about ‘intolerance’

Amartya Sen's interview to Times of India had several lies and loopholes that, interestingly, the interviewer never seemed to counter.