
India Hasn't Made Economics a Culture War, Yet
Trust in economists is behind most Indian reforms. Bad research is destroying it.
Culture, politics, economics and public policy through an Indic lens.
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Trust in economists is behind most Indian reforms. Bad research is destroying it.

And more importantly, what does it mean for future progress?

The root of India's problems.

Humans aren't a tabula rasa that can be designed as per someone's wish.

Policy's explaining power is underrated.

A chartbook of the gaps.
A civilized country can't have women feel unsafe.

They pretend that they care, but they really don't. Revealed preferences in terms of the governments they vote in, show that they only care about economic growth.

The advent of AI doesn't mean that we throw out everything we know about economics and human nature.

And why the BJP wants to push it through.