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Economics with a human face: Nudging & budging

Richard Thaler's 2017 Nobel Economics Prize was overdue. He has been gnawing away at overheated neo-liberal economic philosophy in the same way that Thomas Malthus's population thesis had done to classical economics two centuries or so ago, or more recently, E. F. Schumacher's 'dehumanising' effects of a market economy's inevitable...

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Accounting for self-preservation as well as economic prosperity

November 10 is celebrated as International Accounting Day which is also frequently referred to as International Accountants Day. The objective of observance of a day in the year for a particular subject is to highlight the importance of that subject. Accordingly, Accounting Day is observed to highlight the importance of...

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