The Causes of Unemployment: What’s Being Overlooked?
Wages Are Determined by Productivity, Not Employer Benevolence
Walter Edward Block, an American economist and anarcho-capitalist scholar, occupies the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the J. A. Butt School of Business at Loyola University New...
Could Artificial Intelligence Finally Deliver the Promise of Central Planning?
Even the most sophisticated algorithms can only work with information that already exists—and meaningful economic information emerges from markets, not planning boards.
In the early 1970s, Chile embarked on one of the most ambitious economic experiments of the modern...
ENERGY RELIABILITY IS ONLY AS STRONG AS ITS MOST VULNERABLE LINK
Expanding power generation while neglecting the final stretch of delivery infrastructure is like building half a bridge and expecting traffic to flow.
This January, Tennessee received a stark lesson in the realities of electricity—and in the hidden vulnerabilities that can...
IMF OUTLOOK: ASIA GAINS MOMENTUM AS THE WEST LOSES SPEED
The International Monetary Fund’s October 2025 update to its World Economic Outlook may appear cautiously encouraging at first glance. Yet beneath the modest upgrade lies a far more significant story—one of shifting economic power, evolving trade routes, and a gradual...
WHY AI TAKING OVER JOBS ISN’T THE THREAT MANY FEAR
I often travel between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Since no direct flight connects the two cities, one of the most common routes takes me through Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. After countless layovers, the airport has begun to feel less...
Challenges Faced by Nepali Women Entrepreneurs
Through vicarious experiences picked-up from books, mainstream media, and stories of women-counterparts, I thought I was aware of gender-based systematic oppression of our society and how they were preventing women from breaking the glass ceiling. But, only after months of...
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Writing a Compelling Business Plan
As a management consulting company in Nepal, we receive a lot of queries regarding business plans. Most of these queries are initiated by entrepreneurs who are applying for a bank loan or are trying to present their business to...
Plastic Waste Management: Insights on Challenges of Recycling in Nepal
Fig: Recycled Plastic Value Chain
Notorious for being large scale pollutant, affecting wildlife habitat and human population alike, and plastic waste has become a key global concern in recent years. The critical environmental issue has alarmed multitude of stakeholders and...
Fighting an Infodemic
As the COVID-19 outbreak spreads and most aspects of our daily life come to a halt, organizations are compelled to enforce institutional changes to stay afloat based on the news and information circulating online. But, considering the proliferation of misinformation about...
Nepal Trade Information Portal
Nepal Trade Information Portal (NTIP): Enhancing Trade Facilitation in Nepal
The Nepal Trade Information Portal (NTIP) was developed to comply with Article 1 of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), aiming to capture, disseminate, and distribute essential trade...