The Leap Blog

by Ajay Shah. The Russian economy has faced a series of adverse shocks after the invasion of Ukraine: Many de facto restrictions have...

by Ajay Shah. The case for private participation in infrastructure Many years ago, most infrastructure in India was government owned. ...

Marginal Revolution has a post about the moral effects of socialism. In this, we are pointed to a fascinating new paper. Ariely, Garcia-Ra...

David Montgomery, Sari Horwitz and Marc Fisher have a great story in the Washington Post about how the police tracked down the murderers ...

by Apoorva Gupta. The recent announcement that dismantled the levy and monthly release mechanisms, in the sugar industry, will make the i...

The investigative journalism by cobrapost , their videos, and Monika Halan in Mint add up to an important story. Most of us have eno...

Most of us in India understand that there is a huge problem with freedom of speech in India. India now ranks at the bottom of the world o...

The first element of achieving change is a dissatisfied public that is able to speak up. In places like China, freedom of speech is circum...

There is fresh rage on the bad state of law and order in India today. That rage is entirely appropriate. My father was born in 1926 and e...

We have released a cost-benefit analysis of the UID system. In one line, the result of the calculations, under fairly conservative assumpti...

China: Worse than you ever imagined by Ian Johnson in the New York Review of Books . Totalitarianism, Famine and Us by Samuel Moyn in t...

Harsh Vardhan's excellent blog post on this subject made me think further about the questions. Finance policy makers in India are of...

The Economist runs a discussion forum titled The Economist By Invitation . In this, they recently setup a discussion ...