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The revolution will not be subsidised

AAP's rise in Delhi politics has been marked by welfare schemes, but its lack of ideological challenge to BJP may cost it support amid shifting voter...

09.02.2025 20

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India's economic worldview will have to change from China+1 to US+1

A second Trump presidency will not cripple the Indian economy but cause enough policy pain, which will only get worse if objectivity is lacking

25.01.2025 10

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Terms of Trade | Can capital be inherently socially progressive?

To go to war with capitalism from a class perspective, you need to have a solid class alliance behind you.

18.01.2025 7

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Terms of Trade | Delhi’s reckoning with democracy

AAP's core political economy model is to divert state resources from investment to supporting the short-term consumption of the poor.

11.01.2025 10

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Terms of Trade | What can the US election results teach India?

India has seen a rise of what are often described as freebies, to supplement what are clearly inadequate incomes for a large part of our population.

15.11.2024 4

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Terms of Trade | The empire turns renegade

Trump’s USP vis-à-vis the American voter is that he will make the country renege on the responsibility, and the costs, of being the leader of...

07.11.2024 3

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Terms of Trade | The disjoint between economic growth and politics

That incumbents in rich Maharashtra and poor Jharkhand are both relying on the cash transfer route to return to power is an indictment of India’s...

18.10.2024 2

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Terms of Trade | What really happened in Haryana?

Hoodas are far from a liability for Congress, but they approached the elections with a sectarian agenda rather than widening the cordon sanitaire...

11.10.2024 2

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Terms of Trade | Can the socially retrograde turn economically progressive?

The political shift from socially progressive to regressive, and vice versa, is often, although not always, accompanied by a change in economic...

27.09.2024 6

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Economics has a monopoly problem, but possibly not because of Ivy Leagues

The real reason economics has not been able to make a positive contribution to the real world is due to political co-option and gatekeeping by the...

20.09.2024 3

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Sitaram Yechury’s contradictions were captured by Mirza Ghalib, not Karl Marx

It is easy to criticise Yechury and his contemporaries. But it is important to appreciate that some of them embraced politics in the hope of...

13.09.2024 10

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Unlocking India’s economic fortunes requires shedding ideological blinkers

The ultimate economic wisdom in India is likely being lost in the cacophony of self-righteous arguments which are seeking gratification rather than...

06.09.2024 2

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Why the Unified Pension Scheme is important and unimportant at the same time

Even though the fiscal implications are not exactly clear, the UPS is among the most important “reform” rollbacks in India’s history.

28.08.2024 3

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Terms of Trade | What Poland tells us about ideology

History is replete with instances where politicians thought that the only contradictions that matter are what they have solved but are then proven...

23.08.2024 2

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Terms of Trade | The indignity of pursuing self-interest

The urban poor, when they come to cities, hope to achieve basic sustenance on a regular income, which they cannot ensure in a village or a smaller...

15.08.2024 1

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Terms of Trade | Why “reformers” end up on the wrong side of history

Neither Hasina nor Buddhadeb saw what was coming because the political apparatus they were heading was more invested in virtualising the untenable...

09.08.2024 2

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Terms of Trade | Bahujans against Bahujans

SC judgment is likely to encourage politics which seeks sub-stratification of political loyalties in name of sub-stratification of affirmative...

02.08.2024 1

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The budget is over, let us talk about broader economic policy

Economic Survey was categorical in admitting that India will not enjoy the kind of global tailwinds available to countries such as China a couple...

26.07.2024 1

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