Ideas of India

Ideas of India examines the academic ideas that can propel India forward. New episodes every other Thursday. Hosted by @srajagopalan and produced by @mercatus.

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In the latest Ideas of India episode, Shruti Rajagopalan (@srajagopalan) speaks with Sajjid Chinoy, managing director and chief India economist at J.P. Morgan, about India’s balance of payments and capital account challenges, rupee depreciation, shrinking FDI, the constraints holding back private investment, and why employment and exports have become first-order policy priorities.

Check out the full conversation: https://t.co/0bYo1uZiep

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In the latest episode of @ideasofindia @Mercatus, I spoke with @rahulsagar about his new book 'The Birth of Indian Liberalism', the forgotten nineteenth-century thinker Mama Parmanand, why it is the first work of Indian political theory, liberalism in British India and the princely states, religion as a moral resource, the roots of Hindu nationalism, and much more.

Audio + Transcript https://t.co/P6vEHmHKbo

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

Sajjid Chinoy speaks with @srajagopalan @IdeasofIndia on India's economic challenges. Confirms what I've long believed--Sajjid is one of the absolute best (not to mention nicest!) economists working on India today. I hope policymakers take note https://t.co/qDtwyQiqmE

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Read the full transcript: https://t.co/z1mYbdvHe0

[Ideas of India @IdeasofIndia]

In the latest Ideas of India episode, Shruti Rajagopalan (@srajagopalan) speaks with Sajjid Chinoy, managing director and chief India economist at J.P. Morgan, about India’s balance of payments and capital account challenges, rupee depreciation, shrinking FDI, the constraints holding back private investment, and why employment and exports have become first-order policy priorities.

Check out the full conversation: https://t.co/0bYo1uZiep

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In the latest episode of @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I speak with Sajjid Chinoy about the current BOP and capital account challenges, rupee depreciation, declining FDI, stagnating private investment and much more.

Transcript + Audio: https://t.co/pEG6UfBIIa

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Revenue may not be the binding constraint on speculation.

In this @IdeasofIndia clip, @srajagopalan speaks with India’s Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran about whether governments can curb speculation while relying on it for revenue.

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Nageswaran argues the fiscal importance of these taxes is smaller than it appears relative to the size of the economy.

The real question is design: can policy discourage excessive speculation while preserving markets’ role in managing risk?

Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/Q9kRJS5WBB

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Revenue may not be the binding constraint on speculation.

India’s Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran joins @srajagopalan to examine how financial transaction taxes shape market behavior.

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Join me at 9 pm IST tonight as I chat with @srajagopalan about the steps that we need to take when we analyse a policy. It is not as easy as it sounds and neither is it as tough as some make it out to be. See you all in a bit.
https://t.co/KzIHtbaHpm

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Read the full transcript:
https://t.co/XwvXNlUq1v

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In the latest Ideas of India episode, Shruti Rajagopalan (@srajagopalan) speaks with economist Ritam Chaurey (@rchaurey) about India's structural transformation, how firms respond to labor, credit, and land regulations, why manufacturing growth remains elusive, and what firm-level evidence reveals about informality, employment, and economic development.

Check out the in-person conversation on YouTube: https://t.co/hl4XB0nyKJ

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In my latest substack I argue that copyright protected expression because original expression was the costly thing. AI makes expression cheap and moves the value upstream to judgment and taste, which is exactly what copyright was built to leave free.

https://t.co/qpsWrPoyxK

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In the latest episode of @IdeasofIndia @mercatus speak with Ritam Chaurey @rchaurey about how firms in India respond to regulatory and fiscal changes, labor laws, SARFAESI, implications for India's structural transformation, and much more.

Audio + Transcript https://t.co/wiqysOPHL6

[Pramod Biligiri @pramodbiligiri2]

This was an extremely thoughtful and sincere conversation (although hovered on the abstract a bit)! 👌

Pretty much a live demonstration of what at one point @pbmehta called “wresting snippets of intellectual order in a world that seems almost unintelligible!”

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1/ Dr. @nachiketmor presents a transformative way to redesign India's healthcare in this @IdeasofIndia pod. @shrutirajgopalan's sharp questions makes clear why it’s a design failure, not just a funding one. For more discussion on this join: https://t.co/bMx2AnkaQo

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Read the full transcript: https://t.co/6Vzu8xTcdp

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In the latest Ideas of India episode, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (@pbmehta) returns to the podcast to discuss power, conformity, and dissent in modern India with Shruti (@srajagopalan).

Check out the in-person conversation on YouTube: https://t.co/YScxnjM7n2

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In the latest episode of @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I speak with @pbmehta about nihilism in politics, the Adam Smith on concentrated power, what it takes to build lasting institutions, politics of vishwas, nonalignment, and much more.

Audio+transcript: https://t.co/AaelV1NhDd

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Stay up to date with new research and conversations from our India Political Economy Program: https://t.co/AtUaM5NVl6

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“Even maintaining 7% growth will be no easy achievement.”

India’s Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran joins @srajagopalan to explain why 8% growth is rare and why today’s global economy makes it even harder.

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From East Asia’s growth experience to today’s geopolitical and trade constraints, the conditions that enabled rapid growth have changed.

Watch the full conversation and read the transcript:
https://t.co/kSpK2b3yDi