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Quasi-social products with legal implications: A case of insurance marketing
(2010-03-22)In the course of the 'modernization" process many new practices and norms have to be introduced. While we desist from defining modernization or even defending it, suffice it to say that industrilization and modernization ... -
Quasitransitive rational choice
(2009-12-12)We consider a finite universal set of alternatives and the set of all feasible sets are simply the set of all non-empty subsets of this universal set. A choice function assigns to each feasible set a non-empty subset of ... -
Quasitransitive rational, choice and monotonic preference for freedom
(2009-12-12)We consider a finite universal set of alternatives and the set of all feasible sets are simply the set of all non-empty subsets of this universal set. A choice function assigns to each feasible set a non-empty subset of ... -
Quasitransitivity and monotonic preference for freedom
(2010-01-16)We consider a finite universal set of alternatives and the set of all feasible sets are simply the set of all non-empty subsets of this universal set. A choice function assigns to each feasible set a non-empty subset of ... -
Quest for a universal morality: Jurgen Habermas and Sri Aurobindo
(2010-03-29)Morals in the sociological and anthropological discourse have been looked at as a construction of culture and as an appendage of social norms. In the conventional sense, moral development culture. But such a notion of ... -
Quest for aviation growth
(2010-01-16)Based on a review of the Airlines Alliances in various parts of the world, the paper comments on the choices before India. It develops the basic contours of strategy for growth of Indian aviation and notes the role of the ... -
The Question of Land and Infrastructure Development in India: Urgently Required Reforms for Fairness and Infrastructural Development
(2011-05-26)Land in India is problematic largely because of archaic and perverse provisions in the practice and the law. The new Land Acquisition Amendment Bill does go some way to correct the anti-democratic and imperial provisions ... -
A quick estimate the likely total infections and deaths due to COVID19 in select countries (Version April 1, 2020)
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-04-03)Using a logistic model of cumulative cases and deaths it would soon become possible to give estimates to the final numbers of cases and deaths that are likely on account of COVID19, for countries which have gone through ... -
Quotas under RTE: Leading towards an egalitarian education system?
(2013-11-26)Quotas for weaker sections in private schools have been one of the most controversial and contested instruments introduced as part of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. In this paper, ... -
QWL in Indian organisations - an irreverent view
(2010-03-13)This paper takes the position that in Indian organisation, the most central and pivotal concern is the concept of work itself. Work is defined as activities that contribute to achieving organisational missions. Where work ... -
Rainwater harvesting, alternative to the water supply in Indian urban areas: the case of Ahmedabad in Gujarat
(2010-03-31)Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous increase of the population as well as the financial, administrative and technical deficiencies of the new ... -
Rational choice correspondence in social choice problems
(2009-12-12)This paper grew out of a reading of an interesting exposition by Danilov and Sotskov [1997], where general one to one correspondences are established between binary relations and choice correspondences. Out purpose in this ... -
Rationalization of bargaining solutions by symmetric metrics and respect for unanimity
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-09-01)In this paper we show that rationalizability of bargaining solution by a symmetric metric implies that the bargaining solution is anonymous. We further show that rations ability of a bargaining solution by a metric implies ... -
Rationing and the private provision of a public good
(2010-03-28)In this paper we study a solution concept for resource allocation in an economy with public goods and a fixed set of cost-shares for each agent. This solution is originally due to Champsaur (1979). We study the existence ... -
Rationing and the private provision of a public good
(2010-07-27)In this paper we study a solution concept for resource allocation in an economy with public goods and a fixed set of cost-shares for each agent. This solution is originally due to Champsaur (1979). We study the existence ... -
A Re-look at the long-run stability of the money multiplier in India
(2009-12-12)To check the stability of the money multiplier, the aggregate relationship between a measure of money stock and reserve money is examined. Section II, after a brief literature review, methodology followed in the study is ... -
Reaching the rural poor: Experience of Public Distribution System in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)This paper is based on the larger study on Public Distribution System done by the author under then Kellogg Fellowship Programme sponsored by the Michigan State University. -
Real estate and infrastructure resolution
(2019-09-19)We propose a mechanism that uses the financial markets to mobilize the resources of a large population of investors, to revive the impaired assets in the real sector in India today. This should also allow the economy to ... -
Real time location prediction with taxi - Gps data streams
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-07)The prediction of the destination location at the time of pickup is an important problem with potential for substantial impact on the efficiency of a GPS enabled taxi service. While this problem has been explored earlier ... -
Realigning Business Strategy for PWD (People with Disabilities) Customers: A Less-explored Territory in Diversity Inclusion
(2013-11-21)A disability refers to a physical, sensory or mental limitation that interferes with a person's ability to move, see, hear or learn. Business initiatives taken up by organizations for diversity inclusion of people with ...