TRADE WAR TRUCE: A GAME WON OR LOST
byThe US and China have an opportunity to unite and fight this pandemic, but alas! Literature shows that since 1949, the US– China relations…
Society
Social Distancing As A Privilege
byConsider 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…
To Play or Not to Play: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Trade War
byIn May this year, as the world dealt with the spectrum of horror that the pandemic brought with it, we also witnessed the slow…
Unintended Consequences
byAn 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
byWe see memes and videos on Facebook and Instagram of people at grocery stores hoarding “essential” goods such as toilet paper, clawing and screaming…
Mother’s Day Ritual
byI watch my mother jump to a sneeze and anxiously ask who among the three of us coughed the night before. I watch her…
The COVID-19 Social Network
byEconomic, 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
byThe Prisoner’s Dilemma, is a quintessential thought experiment, taught to any Social Science student as a classic example in an introductory Game Theory class….
A War Childhood Can Be A Childhood Nonetheless
byAs all-consuming as wars are, we rarely pause to think what part children play in them, and how much they understand. It’s the adults…
Do You See Us Now? One Hundred Years Of Solitude And Post Article-370 Ladakh.
byThere is a peculiar episode from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s years as a journalist for El Espectador. A correspondent had cabled in reports of fighting…