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#271 Some Slopes Are Slippery For Real
A Debate on Caste-based Census, A Trade BATman, and An Algorithm for Fiscal Federalism
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#270 Inception
UPS vs NPS, Strategic Autonomy from a Cognitive Lens, and Reading Recommendations
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#269 In Fits and Starts
Lateral Hiring Goes for a Toss, e-Commerce Firms, Policy Flows and Stocks, and Yet Another Judicial Commission
#268 Wrong Theories of Change
Is ₹/Job a Helpful Metric for Industrial Policy?, The PM's Independence Day Speech, Subcontinental Geopolitics, and China's Economic Troubles
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#267 Bayesian Updating
Why Equity Markets Fell, Why Indian Firms Don't Innovate Enough, and How to Structure an Economic Policy Approach Towards China
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#126 A Little Boat Adrift 🎧
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#181 We Shall Overcome
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#173 Lathpath, Lathpath, Lathpath, Agnipath*
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PolicyWTFs—A Hall of Shame
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#266 Complex Questions and Easy Answers
Kamandal versus Mandal yet again, and Industrial Policy Promises versus Reality
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#265 Self-correction
China's Role in India's Manufacturing, Defence Budget Highlights, Bye-bye Biden, and Reading Recommendations
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#264 Ideas Travel. Bad Ideas Travel Farther.
A Week of Several PolicyWTFs, Agglomeration Effects in High-tech Industries, and How to Stay Sane in the Information Age
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PolicyWTFs—A Hall of Shame
A compilation of all the failed policies that have received not-so-honourable mentions in this thoughtletter
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#263 Beyond the Obvious
The Indian State vs 'Godmen', India-China Comparisons, and the Russia Trip policyWTF
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#262 Promises vs Realities
Sports Governance, Indian Government Bonds Cross a Milestone, and the Risk-Reward Trade-off in Manufacturing Investments
#261 Incentives That Work and That Don't
When Chinese Exports and Taiwanese Firms Met India
#260 Hum Dekhenge*
Political Rumblings, 'Special Category Status', and Sin Taxes Committing Sins
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#259 Playing the Long Game
NEET and Neeti, Why India Should Champion Labour Mobility, Agnipath via Inverse Induction, and more
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Anticipating the Unintended
Anticipating the Unintended
A thought letter about public policy concepts, frameworks, and ideas. Indian perspectives on public policy, foreign affairs, and global politics. 9000+ subscribers. 250+ editions. By Pranay Kotasthane & RSJ.
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