Prof Raman Mahadevan has recently written an insightful monograph on Nattukottai Chettiars. It is part of the Penguin Series on Indian Business History edited by Gurcharan Das. Here is my review of the book published in the Frontline magazine. How a Tamil business community dominated 19th-century South-East Asian commerce before colonialism and World Wars cemented…

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A Teacher Writes to Students Series (50): Listen to Kolodko-3 | Mostly Economics

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (50): Listen to Kolodko-3 Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics (Retd.), SRCC, DU I am choosing and reproducing six pragmatic discussions from the experiential perceptions of the great Polish economics Professor Grzegorz W. Kolodko for your perusal and consideration. He had his own political-economic practice as a…

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Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie | Mostly Economics

IdeasofIndia podcast hosts Rathin Roy who shares interesting insights about Indian fiscal pie: Today my guest is Rathin Roy, who's a Distinguished Fellow at the Kautilya School of Public Policy and a Visiting Senior Fellow at ODI Global. His main research interests are political economy, public finance, and development economics, and he also served on the…

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Why Did Air Conditioning Adoption Accelerate Faster Than Predicted? Evidence from Mexico | Mostly Economics

Lucas W. Davis & Paul Gertler in this new NBER paper: A common theme in the vast literature on climate change is the estimation of models using historical data to make predictions many decades into the future. Although there is a large and growing number of these types of studies, researchers rarely return later to check the…

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