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Greece has been struck with one of the world’s worst debt crisis. It owes an alarmingly high amount of sovereign debt to the European Union. In 2010 the country revealed its sky-high deficit and was frozen out of bond markets. Consequently, emergency loans from EU and IMF i.e bailouts aimed at saving sinking economies began. …
What exactly are we supposed to do in the course of our lives? Is there inherently a purpose why we exist? Existentialism as a theory, tries to answer the meaninglessness of life. While Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle believed in essentialism, relatively modern philosophers like Sartre disagree. The main argument remaining: “Are we born …
We have seen how Hypebeast culture has taken over the whole world today. Sneakers and other such items are valued at hundreds and thousands of dollars. But why does this happen? To understand this phenomenon, we look at Supreme, a brand which is now valued at more than a billion dollars. Supreme was a year …
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Game theory has the prisoner’s dilemma as one of its most popular examples, whose implications occur in diverse fields of study be it business management and psychology or advertisements and sports. The solitary interrogation of the prisoners who have been caught red-handed, gives them two choices: to remain silent or to betray. Each of them …
Located on the Persian Gulf and popularly known as the City of Gold, Dubai has emerged as one of the richest cities in the world in the recent years. For a city with the most improbable geographics, Dubai has set an example for the whole world through its stunning growth from a sleepy Gulf port …
There are countless instances when you are sitting in front of your laptop, jumping from one site to another trying to break this code to get the cheapest flight deal possible. The airlines on the other side of the table indulge in extensive analysis themselves and dynamic pricing is their way forward in ensuring that …
Subscription as we know rings the bell of apps like Netflix and Amazon Prime in our minds but is that it? There is much more diversity in the subscription models. Ranging from services to products, the idea of companies to use the strategy of subscription has been successful in the recent past and now more …
Nearly all of us look at the sky wondering what the realm beyond the clouds holds for us, but have you ever thought how we look from up there? Well, a picture by NASA is all you need to see. We spend our lives evaluating a nation’s economic prosperity based on its GDP, but turns …
Amazon’s patent over one click buying option, having an absurdly broad scope has encountered many legal attacks and generated billions in revenue for the company. Ever wondered, what is the story behind the “absurd patent language”? Most of the patents are filed by the non-practicing entities, the companies who own intellectual property but don’t do …
People respond to facts and information in very varied ways. Yet the thought processes can be largely categorised. Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow talks about some major thinking patterns that we observe in people. Kahneman gives the example of a man whose son is killed by a lion. The man registers …