NEW POST: Prof Tirthankar Roy has recently sought to destroy claims that British colonial policies caused famines in India. Tamoghna Halder fact checks each of Roy's points, finds multiple mistakes. Roy's defense of colonialism seems to be on shaky ground. developingeconomics.org/2023/02/20/col…

Today I started my class on the butterfly effect in the Lorenz equations by having everyone watch this video by Veritasium. It's so good! Very motivating to the students, and it allowed me to focus more on the nitty-gritty math. youtube.com/watch?v=fDek6c…

Wrote in the TOI about kingly violence, feat. amputated noses, human beings ripped apart, butchered religious leaders, etc. The point being that kingship as an *institution* was linked to violence. Brutality wasn't purely a Mughal monopoly as some believe. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/really-royally…

Getting rid of the periodic table and evolution is tantamount to getting rid of two of the basic pillars of all of science. In what bureaucrat's drunken reverie was this a reasonable move? nature.com/articles/d4158…

A critical review of "Oppenheimer" from the publication that Oppenheimer once, in one of his public lectures, called "that unfailing arbiter of our morality". newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…

Fun fact: in what is kind of the most excellent coincidence I have ever seen, today's economics laureate Claudia Goldin has a new NBER working paper out this morning called "Why Women Won." (This really presumably is a coincidence because not only is it not possible to

Our new paper starts with "Life on planet Earth is under siege..Unfortunately time is up." See our 2023 State of the Climate Report. I am honored to have worked with top scientist coauthors. #ClimateEmergency You can share beyond Twitter for free here: academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Wise observation from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

An essay by Richard H Thaler and yours truly on Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, his greatest collaborator. newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

The Linda Problem of Kahneman and Tversky: In the Linda Problem, one is given characterological info about Linda's feminist liberal history, and then asked: which is more likely: Linda is a bank teller or Linda is a bank teller with an interest in the feminist movement. 1/n

This Saturday evening, I'll be talking about 'C. T. Kurien and Rethinking Economics' at The Reading Club, Dept. of Economics, Madras Christian College (MCC). Kurien taught at MCC from 1953 to 1978. Arun Koshy Rethinking Economics Heterodox Economics Newsletter @heterodoxnews.bsk KN Raj Economics Club

Read this carefully. It says cancer is curable when diagnosed early and advanced cancers can go into remission when treated properly with medical, surgical and interventional management which includes chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Your beliefs and personal anecdotes

📢 A 3-day workshop on Politics, Philosophy, & Political Economy in MCC, Chennai this March 19-21. Apply by February 15: sites.google.com/view/ishet/mcc… Jointly organised with ISHET 🌳 Financial support available ✨️ Local organiser Arun Koshy

Great take in @fortune today by NYU professor ⁦Gary Marcus⁩. (Originally published in a Substack.) "China just redefined the global AI race—with massive implications for OpenAI, Nvidia, and foreign policy" fortune.com/2025/01/27/ai-…

My paper on the Indian Reception to Piero Sraffa where I focus on book reviews by 3 Indian economists is now published in the Centro Sraffa working paper series. centrosraffa.org/cswp_details.a…

Last week, the MCC-ISHET 3-day Workshop on Politics, Philosophy & Political Economy took place at MCC, Chennai. We received more than 150 applications from which around 30 were selected. Our keynote speaker Matthew Smith (Uni of Sydney Economics) gave 2 lectures on Thomas Tooke &

My latest for The New York Times -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Based on his BA Thesis on Ambedkar's economic thought Economics @ Azim Premji University Azim Premji University, SrihariChikoti writes a blog post in Developing Economics. SHoET ISHET

Did you know? On December 13, 1973, Isaac Asimov wrote a brief but memorable letter to Carl Sagan, prompted by his reading of Sagan’s newly published book, The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective. In Letter Asimov wrote; “I have just finished The Cosmic