Archive - Anticipating the Unintended

#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

Jul 21

PolicyWTFs—A Hall of Shame

A compilation of all the failed policies that have received not-so-honourable mentions in this thoughtletter

Jul 17

#263 Beyond the Obvious

The Indian State vs 'Godmen', India-China Comparisons, and the Russia Trip policyWTF

Jul 14

#262 Promises vs Realities

Sports Governance, Indian Government Bonds Cross a Milestone, and the Risk-Reward Trade-off in Manufacturing Investments

Jul 7

June 2024

#261 Incentives That Work and That Don't

When Chinese Exports and Taiwanese Firms Met India

Jun 30

#260 Hum Dekhenge*

Political Rumblings, 'Special Category Status', and Sin Taxes Committing Sins

Jun 23

#259 Playing the Long Game

NEET and Neeti, Why India Should Champion Labour Mobility, Agnipath via Inverse Induction, and more

Jun 16

On the 2024 Lok Sabha Election Results. And is Agniveer 2.0 on the Cards?

Jun 9

#257 Of Nonconformists

Friend-enemy Distinction, A Framework on Social Norm Flipping, and Evaluating the Shakti Scheme

Jun 2

May 2024

#256 Bounded Rationality of Humans etc.

The 3 Big AI Misuse Areas, Decentralisation at all Levels, and a Framework for Modelling Human Behaviour

May 26

#255 Back to the 1930s

Escalation in the US-China Trade War, and a Travelogue from Singapore

May 19

#254 The Great Splintering

India against digital trade tariff moratorium. US for tariffs on China.

May 12

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