An
editorial in the Business Standard on getting away from
gerontocracy.
An
editorial in the Indian Express on the next steps on
pensions and the next steps on legislation.
Anil
Padmanabhan in Mint about the people in India who would
like for India to remain focused on poverty. I would add one more
interest group in this: Development economics.
The
burqa joins the league of cape and cowl by Mahvesh
Murad.
N.
Sundaresha Subramanian in the Business Standard reports
on the parties of India which have the biggest criminal
footprint.
One of the first sensible things in the field of higher education
policy in
India: Building
the Links Between Funding and Quality in Higher Education:
India's Challenge by Lindsay Daugherty, Trey Miller, Rafiq
Dossani, Megan Clifford, Rand
Corporation. Also
see.
Trampling on the individual in India: Here's something for us in India to envy:
the response of the Polish Prime
Minister to proposals to censor the Internet: We shall not block
access to legal content regardless of whether or not it appeases us
aesthetically or ethically.
And here is another: a story
of a
dentist who tried to interfere with the online freedom of speech
of customers.
Compare and contrast with what our Supreme
Court just
said to mouthshut.
Ila
Patnaik: What
Raghuram Rajan needs to do
and Gearing
up for the slow withdrawal of QE.
Mihir
Sharma in the Business Standard on the consequences of
exchange rate depreciation.
The
trouble with our banks by Shankar Sharma and Devina Mehra in
the Business Standard.
Editorial
in the Indian Express.
Trouble
for treaties by N. Sundaresha Subramanian in the Business
Standard, about the kind of firms who showed up in the
Private Treaties portfolio.
Anusha
Soni in the Business Standard about capacity
constraints in the government that are hindering the field of infrastructure.
When
rent-seekers and startups collide by Steve Blank: A useful
set of insights into the field of payments in India.
Noah Smith on the Economics Ph.D.: href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.jp/2013/05/if-you-get-phd-get-economics-phd.html">why
and href="http://qz.com/116081/the-complete-guide-to-getting-into-an-economics-phd-program/">how. Also
see: href="http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2012/12/the-problems-of-economics-profession.html">a
set of concerns, and href="http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2011/05/books-that-should-be-read-before.html">the
beautiful books.
Those who fail to remember our past will be forced to relive
it. See this
post. I wrote
something a
while ago which draws on a similar idea.
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