Antara Haldar

American economist Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics.  Goldin’s work underscores a point that feminists have long emphasised: women do not have the luxury of separating the personal from the professional.

‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream 

Issues like women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap have long been marginalised within economics. Harvard economist Claudia Goldin’s work –...

Economist Milton Friedman at a conference in Oct 2003 Friedman was one of the leading scholars of the Chicago School of ideas -- which championed free markets and minimum government intervention.
THE BROAD VIEW

Laying Chicago economics to rest

From breakthroughs in behavioural economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy...