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Emergence of China in the New World Order
INTRODUCTION There’s been a lot of discussions about the emergence of a new system where a duopoly might exist in terms of Economic Supremacy between America and China. Some discussions even suggest we might see a future where China might supersede America in terms of Military, Technology and Economic power. While China’s meteoric rise to…
Attention Economics
Introduction We each have only 24 hours in the day. What we choose to do during these 24 hours and where we choose to allocate our attention during this time will increasingly determine who we become and the quality of our lives.Now we’ve all heard some version or the other of this “quote” in our lives.…
The Law of All or Nothing
Introduction In probability theory, the Kolmogorov’s zero–one law, named in honour of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (yeah, I couldn’t pronounce that either), specifies that a certain type of event, called a tail event, will either almost surely happen or almost surely not happen; that is, the probability of such an event occurring is zero or one. The significance of this law is more pronounced in…
History is not the Future
Setting the Context In this week’s article, we explore a plethora of topics, from “End of History Illusion” to “Pluralist Ignorance Effect”, concept of “Alternative Histories” and other such fluff from interdisciplinary domains, pivotal for investors to be cognisant about in the world of Finance. This particular read is tilted towards Behavioural Economics, Human Psychology,…