Ruminating over The Republic by Plato is the first step to
thinking about politics and the State, and many angry young men
that try to think about India do wrong by
on their intellectual foundations.
Datta in Mint worries about similar problems in the
domain of economics.
Patnaik analyses the two kinds of criticisms of Aadhaar: (a) That
a lot of money is being spent and this expenditure isn't justified and
(b) That building Aadhaar will threaten civil liberties in India.
Trampling on the individual in
India: Five
ways Indian Internet users are fighting for free speech by
Sruthi Gottipati on the India Ink blog on the New York
Times
website. Sec
66A: Curbs on free speech are part of Nehru family legacy by
R. Vaidyanathan on FirstPost.
Emerging Markets
Finance conference, 2012.
In thinking
about Why
is solving India's inflation crisis important?,
see Does
Inflation Harm Corporate Investment? Empirical Evidence from OECD
Countries by Piotr Cizkowicz and Andrzej Rzonca.
Vivek
Kaul has an excellent article in FirstPost about India's
problems with ponzi schemes. Also
see: Buying
respectability. Ponzi schemes are one of the many
consequences of the badly structured laws in Indian finance. We
have created silos such as securities and banking, and existing
agencies can wash their hands off what is going outside their
jagirdari. The legal foundations must change in the ways
proposed by FSLRC
In an
interview with Akshai Jain on Tehelka, Arvind Panagariya
says he isn't convinced the Indian child malnutrition data is
horribly out of line.
Ila
Patnaik on the role of FDI in non-tradeables as a essential
element of competition policy, analogous to what trade does for tradeables.
Lant
Pritchett and Shrayana Bhattacharya in the Indian
Express on what cash transfers can do and what they cannot.
Evgeny Morozov
has an
amazingly well written article in the New Republic about
new-age superficiality. Notes to self: One day I'm going to write
such a hatchet job about a management guru or such like.
Joseph
Sternberg has a great article on the things that went wrong
when Bangladesh attempted industrial policy.
David
Pogue of the New York Times is impressed at the new Samsung
Chromebook
. Hmm, $250 is Rs.13,000 for a laptop that's 1.1 kg, it is
nice.
Tunisia, Libya,
Egypt, Syria?,
and after that Lebanon?.
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