Friday, April 29, 2011

Slavery is freedom

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While many people in India think that we have freedom of speech, things are actually quite bad. There are two well-respected global ra...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Kicking the wheels of the new CPI

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by Ashish Kumar. Inflation measurement is a critical component of macroeconomic policy. In a recent paper, Patnaik et. al. have argued...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Interesting readings

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Freedom House measures freedom of speech online, and finds that India is only `partly free'. The score of unfreedom worsened f...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Did the Indian capital controls work as a tool of macroeconomic policy?

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Ila Patnaik and I wrote a paper titled  Did the Indian capital controls work as a tool of macroeconomic policy? The abstract of this pa...
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Legal process in rule-making: A success story in an unexpected place

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by Shubho Roy and Deepaloke Chatterjee. Rule-making process: A critical component of the rule of law A despotic king has absolute powe...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Jan Lokpal Bill is based on poor policy analysis

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta reminds that that while Elephantiasis is a nasty problem, elephant dung is not the cure. Just because we're convince...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011

Economic freedom in the states of India

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This blog post is joint work with Mana Shah. What is economic freedom? An index of economic freedom should measure the extent to which ri...