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A Nation That Does Not Invest in Science Outsources Its Security A country can import weapons, buy software, license technology, assemble devices and celebrate foreign investment…
GDP Measures Growth, Not Whether People Are Living Better Lives GDP is a brilliant instrument, but a poor mirror. It can measure the size of the economic machine, but not the tex…
AI Will Not Kill All Jobs. It Will Kill the Comfort of Average Skills The panic around artificial intelligence is both justified and misplaced. It is justified because AI will di…
Forests Are Not Anti-Development; They Are Economic Infrastructure There is a lazy argument India must now outgrow: that forests are beautiful, but development is practical. It s…
India's Fiscal Federalism Is Becoming the New Battleground of Politics Indian politics is often described through elections, caste equations, party alliances, religious symbolism…
India's Growth Story Has a Jobs Problem India's growth story has a strange emotional contradiction. The macroeconomic numbers can look impressive, but the young graduate at home…
India's Digital Economy Promised Equality. It May Be Creating a New Divide India's digital revolution has one of the most powerful stories in the modern world: a tea seller accep…
India's Crisis Is Economic on the Surface, Moral at the Core Every society prefers to describe its crisis in measurable terms. Inflation, unemployment, debt, growth, fiscal defic…
India Wants Capitalism Without Cruelty. Can It Build One? India has never been fully comfortable with capitalism, yet it has never stopped desiring its rewards. We want wealth cr…
Amartya Sen reshaped welfare economics by asking what resources actually enable people to do, from escaping famine to expanding freedom and capability.
Verghese Kurien helped build India’s dairy cooperative system by combining farmer ownership, professional management, technology and national markets.
Andrew Carnegie philanthropy funded thousands of libraries, education and scientific institutions, but his giving remains inseparable from the steel empire, labor conflicts and en…
