Understanding Budget 2026

The Ailing State of Indian Tribunals, Big Ideas Ep 64

The value of the Mauritius treaty

Is School Work Culture Broken?, Big Ideas Ep 63

Gains from decontrol

Building Firms that Last, Big Ideas Ep 62

High-Voltage Treatment for a Comatose Elephant

The fractured energy transition needs prices

Open borders, free trade! Ajay Shah on autarky, globalisation and pragmatism, Ep15 of Deepak Disagrees

Should The RBI Revise Its Inflation Targeting Framework?, Big Ideas Ep 61

Carbon border tax: An Indian view

India’s Taxes Are Too Damn High, Big Ideas Ep 60

Stay the course on the IPO market

What does a Swiss court ruling on bond wipe out mean for Yes Bank

Establishing the baseline for the Kollam district court reform

We blame the government for being too litigious. Data tells a different story

Is Global Health Aid Actually Working?, Big Ideas Ep 59

We blame the government for being too litigious. Data tells a very different story

The paradox of plenty: Stable inefficiency in Indian banking

Resilience to Trump tariffs

Gig Work is AWESOME! | Episode 124 | Everything is Everything

10 years of the Commercial Courts Act—has the law delivered on its promise?

Electricity cost recovery and the political imagination: A comparison between private and public distribution in India's biggest cities

A litigant’s guide to courts: Towards a more measurable future

Beware of the Crisis | Episode 123 | Everything is Everything

A litigant’s guide to courts: Understanding predictability in India’s courts

Catching the scientific debris

A litigant’s guide to courts: How efficient is your court?

Making courts transparent: What every litigant should know before filing a case

Who can bridge the information gap between lawyers and litigants? Big Ideas Ep 57

How to Fix Our GST | Episode 121 | Everything is Everything

Indian virtue in the US-China trade war

A frugal DIY air quality monitor

Why Standard Contracts Fail Small Claims, Big Ideas Ep 56

Beyond Pendency: Counting Cases Correctly

Financial Crises: Why They Happen, How They Unfold, What to Do | Ep 119 | Everything is Everything

To GST or not to GST

The Hidden Dangers of LLMs, Big Ideas Ep 55

Short dated options are useful

Do we need new economic models for development? Big Ideas Ep 54

A narrow path for India and China: de-risking engagement for a cautious peace

Seeing Like a State | Episode 115 | Everything is Everything

A pivot to China?

What Should India Do? | Episode 114 | Everything is Everything

Why Indian Cities Are Failing, Big Ideas Ep 53

Indian economic strategy in the new globalisation

What’s Wrong With the Indian Media? | Episode 113 | Everything is Everything

Steps towards the perfect GST

The Future of War | Episode 112 | Everything is Everything

Why Arbitration Fails Without Strong Courts, Big Ideas Ep 52

The Wonders of FDI | Episode 111 | Everything is Everything

State action to combat digital fraud: A strategic view

How Much Wealth Do You Need To Retire? | Episode 110 | Everything is Everything

Beyond Best Practices in Government, Big Ideas Ep 51

Bombay and the rising sea

Accidental Politicians | Episode 108 | Everything is Everything

Need for public consultation in law-making, Big Ideas Ep 50

Households that live within their means in India

Choking China+1?

The World in 2050 | Episode 106 | Everything is Everything

SEZs in India need structural reforms, Big Ideas Ep 49

Is Manufacturing the Answer? | Episode 105 | Everything is Everything

Great leaders choose prosperity over pride

What Ails Indian Manufacturing? | Episode 104 | Everything is Everything

Data Saturation in Qualitative Research, Big Ideas Ep 48

Get them to the court on time: bumps in the road to justice

Optimistic possibilities for Indian growth

Raising the Bar: Multiple poverty lines, Big Ideas, Ep 47

Metrics for Intervention | Episode 101 | Everything is Everything

Gains on payment system regulation

Building climate resilient infrastructure, Big Ideas Ep 46

Where Indian Regulation Went Wrong | Episode 99 | Everything is Everything

Improved government buying

Is Your State Legitimate? | Episode 98 | Everything is Everything

AI and Investment Management: Harnessing Unstructured Data, Big Ideas Ep 45

We need to talk about China

Is Globalization Doomed? | Episode 96 | Everything is Everything

Making PPPs work for metro-rails

Passive No More: The Present and Future of Index funds and ETFs, Big Ideas Ep 44

A new Plaza Accord?

Be you ever so high, the markets are always above you

From Delhi to Denmark: Differential Diagnosis in determining economic development, Big Ideas Ep 43

Implications of US tariffs

Rules, Not Discretion | Episode 92 | Everything is Everything

Are PPPs in Tertiary Healthcare Delivering Better Outcomes?, Big Ideas Ep 42

Separation of Powers | Episode 91 | Everything is Everything

A dark moment on CO2 control

Role of philanthropy in India's growth, Big Ideas Ep 41

Beware of Industrial Policy | Episode 89 | Everything is Everything

Two divergent measures

Why I Am a Free Speech Absolutist | Episode 88 | Everything is Everything

Beyond banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money, Big Ideas Ep 40

The Power of Moore's Laws | Episode 87 | Everything is Everything

How to make episodic deregulation work

RBI’s costly experiments with the Rupee, Big Ideas Ep 39

A new direction in science policy

The levers of government

The Age of Hybrid Warfare | Episode 84 | Everything is Everything

Evolution of Administrative Agencies: From Chevron to Loper, Big Ideas Ep 37

The Future of Administrative Agencies, Big Ideas Ep 38

US export restrictions on AI chips: Implications for India

Invisible Infrastructure | Episode 82 | Everything is Everything

Outlook for Trump's second presidency, Big Ideas Ep 36

Stop-start in currency flexibility harms economic growth

Markets in everything: using Coasean bargains to resolve culture conflicts

Going Bankrupt in India | Episode 80 | Everything is Everything

Comprehensive National Power of India, Big Ideas Ep 35

Envisioning an India-US free trade agreement

The Case for Nuclear Electricity | Episode 78 | Everything is Everything

Build Capabilities Not Ambitious Policies, Big Ideas Ep 34

The tortoise and the hare

Road to universal free healthcare in India, Big Ideas Ep 33

FDI strategy for Indian firms

The Horrors of KYC | Episode 74 | Everything is Everything

Building Without Breaking: The Case for Sustainable Infrastructure, Big Ideas Ep 32

Making the way for nuclear energy in India

The Changing Forms of Creativity | Episode 72 | Everything is Everything

Fertility decline in India, Big Ideas Ep 31

Beware real estate mania

India has skin in the global game

How to fix competitive exams | Episode 70 | Everything is everything

Schooling isn't education, Big Ideas Ep 30

AI and the Indian economy, Episode of Economics Unplugged with Praful Raj

A rapid recovery in China?

Inflation targeting rocks | Episode 68 | Everything is everything

How to create jobs, Big Ideas Ep 29

Don't mess with the exchange rate | Episode 67 | Everything is everything

Four pillars of industrial policy: A conversation with Rahul Ahluwalia

Don't mess with the price system | Episode 66 | Everything is everything

Why digitisation is not enough to reform land laws

Aawas, a digital address for every resident of India, Big Ideas Ep 28

Do court vacations matter: evidence from the Bombay High Court

Understanding India's pensions disaster | Episode 65 | Everything is everything

Who is "innovative"? Unpacking the process of tax exemption grants to startups

How to get a 10x gain in FDI

The Global Tech Wars | Episode 64 | Everything is Everything

Dream of a paperless world, Big Ideas Ep 27

Knowledge Lost and Knowledge Regained | Episode 63 | Everything is Everything

Policy reversals and private investment

How to Write a Paper | Episode 62 | Everything is Everything

Market-based solutions for India’s land-titling issues, Big Ideas Ep 26

New work on district courts in Kerala

Don't Run a Country Like a Company | Episode 60 | Everything is Everything

The new world of alt data, Big Ideas Ep 25

Electricity: A strategic view

Can We Build Switzerland in India?| Episode 58 | Everything is Everything

A conversation on the union budget with Suyash Rai

Coalition politics can be good for India's economy, Big Ideas Ep 24

How to Do Development| Episode 57 | Everything is Everything

Government programs have a limited impact on employment

Need for personal agency in skill development, Big Ideas Ep 23

The state of the economy

The Problem With Digital Public Goods | Episode 56 | Everything is Everything

Implications of climate change on household finance, Big Ideas Ep 22

Where Has All the Infrastructure Gone? | Episode 55 | Everything is Everything

The problems in India's official data, Big Ideas Ep 21

Rethinking NEET, and medical education

A Deep Dive Into Education | Episode 54 | Everything is Everything

How to correctly draw the perimeter for government software systems, Big Ideas Ep 20

Need for pedestrian infrastructure in urban planning, Big Ideas Ep 19

The case for trade barriers against Chinese imports

Conversation on legal system reform

The Indian journey of knowledge production and XKDR Forum

Need for reforms in higher education, Big Ideas Ep 18

Lines on Maps Are Toxic! | Episode 51 | Everything is Everything

Lost a shock absorber

Julia: Origins and Potential, Big Ideas Ep 17

Organising the union government for the climate transition

Why rising consumer credit is concerning, Big Ideas Ep 16

The economics of labour mobility, Big Ideas Ep 15

Electricity subsidies are getting better

Graduating to Globalisation | Episode 48 | Everything is Everything

India Needs Decentralization | Episode 47 | Everything is Everything

Why road side barricading is obsolete, Big Ideas Ep 14

The usefulness of the CMIE household survey data for electricity research in India

Make government-funded software open source by default, Big Ideas Ep 13

Building blocks of the health system, Big Ideas Ep 12

Resurrecting the wealth tax and estate duty

Maps Are Magic | Episode 44 | Everything is Everything

Assessing regulatory capability in Tamil Nadu electricity regulation: Evidence from appeals

Trading strategies in the age of machine learning, Big Ideas Ep 11

Paths to a political business cycle

The Populist Playbook | Episode 42 | Everything is Everything

The balance between the State and the individual, Big Ideas Ep 10

Four Papers That Changed the World | Episode 41 | Everything is Everything

Firms in a tough global environment

The Brave New Future of Electricity | Episode 40 | Everything is Everything

The puzzle of white collar productivity in Indian firms, Big ideas Ep 09

Policymaking needs to be culture-conscious, Big Ideas Ep 08

Three grand challenges of the Indian energy transition

Impact of globalisation on Indian cities, Big ideas Ep 07

From Imperial to Adaptive Firms | Episode 37 | Everything is Everything

The evenings are hard

Statistics remains relevant in this age of data science, Big Ideas Ep 06

The Long Road to Change | Episode 36 | Everything is Everything

The future of banking: from fintech to big tech, Big Ideas Ep 05

The consequences of criminalising cheque bouncing

Economics is needed in legal education, Big Ideas Ep 04

Stocktaking the fintech revolution

How Family Firms Evolve | Episode 34 | Everything is Everything

Personal values and decision making, Big Ideas Ep 03

Public Choice Theory Explains SO MUCH | Episode 33 | Everything is Everything

Are financial markets over-optimistic?

The soft infrastructure of health and education, Big Ideas Ep 02

Economics is needed in urban planning, Big Ideas Ep 01

The UNIX Episode | Episode 32 | Everything is Everything

Strategic thinking on fiscal policy

Financial Inclusion And Well-Being: Assessing How Retail Digital Lending Has Mattered

A Deep Dive Into the Indian Military | Episode 31 | Everything is Everything

The reconfiguration of global trade and FDI

Survey-based measurement of Indian courts

Offshore wind in Tamil Nadu: from potential to reality

Evaluating capital market responses to cybersecurity incidents in Indian listed companies

The difficulties of asset monetisation in the transmission sector

From domestic to global asset pricing

The reformers | Episode 28 | Everything is everything

Vaccines from first principles | Episode 27 | Everything is everything

The forces reshaping banking

When Should the State Act? | Episode 26 | Everything is Everything

Understanding the State | Episode 25 | Everything is Everything

Vast profits for unpleasant people?

Fixing the Knowledge Society | Episode 24 | Everything is Everything

How substantial are non-substantive hearings in Indian courts: some estimates from Bombay

The policy questions around airlines

The Beauty of Finance | Episode 21 | Everything is Everything

Episode 72: The dangers of digital public infrastructure

The power of more work hours

Solving the intermittency of renewables

What's Wrong With Indian Agriculture? | Episode 18 | Everything is Everything

The Three Globalizations | Episode 17 | Everything is Everything

Surging global military production

The China Model is Broken | Episode 16 | Everything is Everything

Math Is Better Than the Brigadier's Girlfriend | Episode 15 | Everything is Everything

The firms of middle India

Fairness and legislation for virtual courts

A conversation on firms

Growth needs more electricity

India's Massive Pensions Crisis

Talking public policy with Ajay Shah on Shortcast over Coffee

Preparing for a changing monsoon

Why Freedom Matters | Episode 10 | Everything is Everything

Doing better than a competitive exam

Why Talent Comes in Clusters | Episode 8 | Everything is Everything

The Rise of the Indian Firm

Episode 342: Vitalik Buterin Fights the Dragon-Tyrant

Information warfare and its limitations

Why gig work matters

A conservative path to get to a fully working Linux computer

Many Indian firms need more leverage

An episode on Jack of all knowledge with Divyanshu Dembi

The Puzzles Of The Indian Labour Market

The Economic Cost Of Small Internet Shutdowns

What’s Choking The Indian Judiciary

An Indian view on dollar domination

Is the Singularity Near? | Episode 2 | Everything is Everything

Tackling Quality Concerns In Indian Drug Exports

Episode 335: A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia

LLM impact for India

Helping litigants make informed choices in resolving debt disputes

Monetary policy, global and local

From Targets To Structures: Rethinking Strategies For Public Procurement From MSMEs

Who is litigating cheque bounce cases?

Financing Infrastructure for the Future: Critical Challenges for Emerging Economies of the G20

Better numbers in private investment projects

How Indian Firms Should Deal With The European Carbon Border Levy

Short Selling Regulations In Indian Market

Cross-Border Activities In India Need More Freedom, Not Less

Exporting into a world that has carbon taxes

Are startups engaging in innovation in India?

The place of short selling in the financial markets

The path to capable Indian firms

Improving Incentives For Airport Managers In India

Is the current regulatory system equipped to deal with AI?

The Xplainer series | E1: The Global Banking crisis and AT1 bonds by Harsh Vardhan

Regulatory Mandates On ESG Investing Fall Short Of Ensuring Impact

The importance of services exports

Episode 323: SVB, Banking and the State of the Economy

Are The Bar Council's New Rules On Foreign Lawyers A Game Changer?

Why Mandating Mediation Will Not Be Effective For Litigants In Commercial Disputes

Episode 321: Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World

Safety in the storm

The roots of global success

CO2 arbitrage will make heroes

How many national champions are required?

How Firms Can Fare Better On Cybersecurity

The Problem Of Greenwashing In ESG Investments In Finance

Uncertainty has declined

Influence operations in India by state actors

How countries treat their rich

A fork in the road for state electricity reforms

Episode on the Puliyabaazi podcast

Foundations for an Indian JETP

Delays in government contracting: A tale of two metros

Five questions for 2023

"What's best done at the union, the state and the city", Ajay Shah, at CEPT University 50th year

Discoms and State Regulators

The litigant perspective upon courts

Improving the win rate in firms

Parsing recent asset price movements

Learning by doing and public procurement in India

Many roads lead to a sound GST

Treating ‘data as oil’ squanders its immense potential

Dawn of the third globalisation?

The make vs. buy decision of the union government

Webinar on The Art and Science of Economic Policy

Should India choose manufacturing over services?

A new dawn for nuclear energy?

What next on data protection?

Rethinking the startup economy

Timeliness in government contracting: Evidence from the country's largest metro-rail network

The Ukraine Crisis: Challenges to India’s Foreign Policy: Session-2

Downstream from the Ukraine war

Firm internationalisation holds the key

Is protectionism compatible with liberalisation?

Identifying roadblocks in highway contracting: lessons from NHAI litigation

More ammo: Improving resilience against extreme surges in demand

Does infrastructure now generate growth?

Measuring financial inclusion: how much do households participate in the formal financial system?

Stopping the inflation

The stress in global macro

Threats to legal certainty in government contracting by electricity distribution companies

Big firms and the problem of intra-India variation of the locale

Climate Change and Our Power Sector

Root cause analysis for the electricity crisis

Traversing across the hope and fear

Implications of free transmission of renewable energy

Focus on CPI inflation

The NPS challenge

Energy transition investment in India and in the world

How Competitive Is Bidding In Infrastructure Public Procurement? A Study Of Road And Water Projects In Five Indian States

How Did Courts Respond To The Pandemic Lockdowns: Evidence From The Nclt

Three problems for the world economy

Economic stress in Russia

The industry structure of India's large firms: IT is the biggest industry

How damaging is freezing central bank assets?

How did the balance sheets get better?

Fund management that you buy

Climate change for practical people

Review of "The Rise of the BJP: The Making of the World's Largest Political Party" by Bhupender Yadav and Ila Patnaik

How A Beleaguered Discom Fought A Losing Battle On Captive Power

Worry about middle India

A cooperative liquidity window for mutual funds: A debate

Central control of health care

The footprint of union government procurement in India

Bringing Gender Equality In The Hindu Succession Act: An Overdue Reform

The question of US monetary policy

Punjab Ppa Bill: Indian Power Sector’s Vodafone Moment?

Land And Access To Finance At The Fifth India Land And Development Conference 2021

How to regulate cryptocurrency

The Lowest Hanging Fruit On The Coconut Tree: India's Climate Transition Through The Price System In The Power Sector

The Time To Privatise India’s Electricity Sector Is Now

Lessons From The Covid-19 Vaccine Procurement Of 2021

Gainers And Losers From Decarbonisation

How To Decarbonise

Resolving municipal distress in India

Climate Justice And India's Choice

Carbon Border Taxes: An Unfair Threat For India Or An Opportunity To Decarbonise?

The Chinese crackdown

Instant cross-border payments vs. current account inconvertibility

New hope in private investment?

Time to hustle

Is Monetising Public Assets A Good Idea?

What year in the history of an advanced economy is like India today?

Why is the IPO process so baroque?

How elements of the Indian state purchase drugs

Episode 237: The Importance of the 1991 Reforms

What good are Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs)?

Lessons From The Delhi Metro

Goods exports from India: Some of the gloom is unjustified

IBC: Should We Worry About Collusive Insolvencies?

Did the central planning end in 1991?

Let's step back from the NPA scare

How might the lab leak hypothesis matter?

Climate, Coal, And India – Capital And Capitals Are Calling Time

Distant thunder in the world economy

Incentive compatibility and state-level regulation in Indian drug quality

Litigation In Public Contracts: Some Estimates From Court Data

The way forward for firms

Backdoors to Encryption: Analysing an Intermediary's Duty to Provide 'Technical Assistance'

Winning the war through vaccines

Episode 223: The Economics and Politics of Vaccines

Panel Talk On Law And Economics Approach To Corporate Laws & Corporate Debt Restructuring In India

Vaccination in India: how will demand change when persons above age 18 are eligible?

An important change of course by policy in Indian Covid-19 vaccination

Economic outlook for the second wave

An impending problem with wheat inventories of the government

Solar Power Manufacturing – Make In India, But At What Cost?

Analysing India's KYC Framework: Can We Do Things Better?

Should India change its policy toward China?

Measuring Institutional Capacity In Property Tax Systems: A Case Study Of Ten Cities In India

Responding to the second wave

How India can meet the China challenge

How Large Is The Payment Delays Problem In Indian Public Procurement?

Is global turbulence likely?

Market forces should determine vaccine prices

Monetisation Lessons From Nhai

Price controls for vaccines?

Excuse Me, Mr. U. N. Secretary General

Should Payment Gateways Be Subject To India’s Anti-Money Laundering Law?

Crypto currencies and conventional currencies will both evolve

Lessons from Gamestop

Episode 211: The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills

Analysing the 2021 budget

Infrastructure Asset Recycling With Public Trust

The Bottleneck Of Government Contracting

FIU’s Penalty on PayPal: The Wisdom of Jurisprudence by Committee

Inflation got back into the target zone

Peering into 2021

Discom Privatisation Challenged: Insufficient Planning Or Tactical Move?

Why do we have more toilets and more child stunting?

The path to normalisation through herd immunity

How the vaccine story will play out

What Ails Public Procurement: An Analysis Of Tender Modifications In The Pre-award Process

The Payment Woes Of The Municipal Corporation Of Greater Mumbai

The Problems Of Public Procurement And Payment Delays: A Review Of The Recent Literature

Peering into the recovery

Get by with a little help from my friends (and shopkeepers): Household borrowing in response to Covid 19

Solving North India's air quality crisis

E19 - Why India is Poor with Ajay Shah, Economist and Author

The strategic depth of being able to borrow

Judicial Triage In The Lockdown: Evidence From India's Largest Commercial Tribunal

Ideas of India: Libertarianism by Necessity

For most stressed firms, the path should be restructuring and not bankruptcy

The market for Covid-19 vaccines and the tipping point to herd immunity

Equal treatment of women in inheritance

Measuring Court Output In The Pandemic: Evidence From India's Largest Commercial Tribunal

Time to re-prioritise firm resolution

Thomas Laubach

Monetary policy in the pandemic

Does India Need A Public Procurement Law?

The three tiers of government in public health

Carrying the ideas of New Education Policy to execution

Rethinking work, home and office

The economy of relationships as opposed to the economy of contracts

Response to the Consultation Whitepaper on 'Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems (NODEs)'

A conversation about current economic issues with Seasonal magazine

More securitisation will help

Gearing up for peak Covid-19

Covid-19 in India in the coming months: The puzzles faced by leaders of health care organisations

Health policy for the coming year

Will nationalising private hospitals reduce our healthcare bills?

Do Stamp Duties Affect Transaction Volumes? A Study Of Real Estate Transactions In Mumbai

Economic freedom in agriculture

The de-lockdown needs a better institutional foundation

Liberalising foreign capital flows in Government debt: No time for incrementalism

Will more foreign financing be required?

More testing: From concept to implementation

The Epidemic of 2020: Setting course for a V-shaped recovery

Finance to the fore

Release of v2.0 of the Exchange Market Pressure dataset associated with PFM 2017.

Holding their breath: Indian firms in an interruption of revenue

Use the private health care sector

Linking welfare distribution to land records in India: Part 1

It's the incentives, stupid

Happy birthday, Inflation Targeting

The Science of Economics

Dodging a bullet?

Episode 159: The Theatre of the Budget

Analysing the February 2020 budget

What can fiscal policy do?

Worry about the trend growth rate

A gap has opened up between the performance of listed and unlisted companies

Episode 154: The Art and Science of Economic Policy