Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Energy and Civilization: A History Book Review: Energy and Civilization – A History, Paperback, $19.95, Pages 568, November 2018 “Energy and Civilization: A History” is most likely close to 40th book by Prof. Vaclav Smil, who can be considered one of the most influential writers of our time.…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies The Indian Growth Paradox: Disconcerting Divergence between Consumer Confidence and Industrial Outlook Surveys The Indian Growth Paradox: Disconcerting Divergence between Consumer Confidence and Industrial Outlook Surveys Observations Summary A structural break in business’ assessment of current and the future business and economic conditions, i.e., post the discontinuity…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Do Steep Price Increases destroy Markets? Do Steep Price Increases destroy Markets? The Case of Housing Market in India In the housing market, we define affordability as the House Price to Income Ratio. The Reserve Bank of India in its Residential Asset Price Monitoring Survey, July 11,…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism; Quinn Slobodian; Hardcover; 400 Pages; Harvard University Press; March, 2018. The book present the history of neoliberalism from the days of World War I and disintegration…
Home Public Policy Choices Publications Perspectives Proposed Reserve Bank of India Guidelines on Pay Regulation: A Perspective Proposed Reserve Bank of India Guidelines on Pay Regulation: A Perspective based on the European Experience It is indeed timely for RBI to bring focus to pay regulation for private sector banks in India, as the private…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques The Idea of India The Idea of India; Sunil Khilnani; Paperback; 264 pages; 2016; Penguin Books; First published July 3, 1997 The book makes us challenge the contemporary trend of looking down upon Jawaharlal Nehru’s achievements. At the same time, it discusses the complicated origins of the…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control; William Norris; University Press This gem of a book discusses how state control of the large corporations and asset owners can help the state achieve its longer-term…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Identity – The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Book Review: Identity – The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; September 2018; Pages 240. The book tries to explain the rise of identity politics, and…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques War by Other Means: Geo-Economics & Statecraft War by Other Means: Geoeconomics & Statecraft by Robert D Blackwill and Jennifer M Harris, Harvard University Press, Pages 384, $19.95 “War by Other Means” is a book which the supporters of free-trade and globally integrated markets would find…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Government Spend, Economic Growth, Deficits and Inflation in India: An Analysis of Aggregates Government Spend, Economic Growth, Deficits and Inflation in India: An Analysis of Aggregates India is a low-middle income country, with nearly 2/3rd of its population living in rural areas. It is a young country…