Tag Archives: demonetisation

On India’s path to community transmission

Posted on March 22, 2020 by

There’s a virus out there among many, many viruses that’s caught the world’s attention. This virus came into existence somewhere else, it doesn’t matter where, and developed a mutation at some point that allowed it to do what it needs … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Scicomm | Tagged Bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution, community transmission, coronavirus, COVID-19, demonetisation, epidemiology, healthcare expenditure, Homo sapiens, Indian Council of Medical Research, infectious diseases, local transmission, novel coronavirus, pandemic, World Health Organization | Comments Off

Ad verecundiam

Posted on October 14, 2019 by

That Swedish group announced today that Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for economics. Within minutes, my Twitter feed was awash with congratulations as well as links to criticisms Duflo and … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged Abhijit Banerjee, ad verecundiam, demonetisation, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Narendra Modi, Sendhil Mullainathan | Comments Off