On Voice
We talk, chit-chat, babble, chatter and prattle. We use our voice to voluntarily express views, to exchange information, to signal changes in preferences, and…
Social Distancing As A Privilege
Consider a housemaid living in a two-room dwelling, with her three sons, her mother in-law, and her husband who is a construction worker. Recent…
Unintended Consequences
An important matter in the social sciences, relates to what a government should do in the face of imperfections and when it should intervene….
The Tragedy of the Co(rona)mmons
We see memes and videos on Facebook and Instagram of people at grocery stores hoarding “essential” goods such as toilet paper, clawing and screaming…
The COVID-19 Social Network
Economic, political, and social interactions are embedded in social settings, and the structure of these relations, determines how people behave, and the outcomes of…
The Prisoner’s Dilemma in the Age of Lockdown
The Prisoner’s Dilemma, is a quintessential thought experiment, taught to any Social Science student as a classic example in an introductory Game Theory class….
Two-Party Domination In A Multi-Party System In Meghalaya
The aim of Mechanism Design is to plan or devise a mechanism that guarantees certain objectives, based on the two assumptions that agents have…
One Size Does Not Fit All!
No one chooses the circumstances into which they are born and thus, no one should be responsible for the consequences that follow. The lottery…