"Why Nothing Works" by Marc J. Dunkelman was revelatory. I've been thinking about these issues for decades but found this book gave me an entirely new perspective that linked domains as disparate as welfare reform, antitrust and infrastructure permitting. Link to my review next:

India might be the first 100% vibe driven -post Soviet- country …

Net Zero = zero productivity? Today at Peel Hunt Research we publish analysis which challenges the government’s claim that there is no trade-off between Net Zero and economic growth. Two decades of experience suggests otherwise. A thread with lots of important charts (1/16) #netzero

Important timely article! Indian offcr have found a new playtool. Now they need to certify frgn firms by taxpayer funded foreign trips to certify them! Reclling the rcnt research that fnd dishonest indvlds are more lkly to go in civil services in IND aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Municipal bonds - a promising alternative for financing the urban infrastructure. But with a mere 0.09% of India's total corporate bonds outstanding, it's clear we're still in the early stages.

Why India must industrialize fast👇#Jobs Lessons from Uttarakhand Vs. Himachal

Coming soon to Zoom rooms near you! We're excited to announce a reboot of the Chamberlain Seminar, five years after its 2020 debut We'll kick things off on March 21st with a tribute to Gary, including remembrances by Moshe Buchinsky and Charles Manski, a presentation of one of

great thread. Trump making India great again, as it looks like GoI is exposed .. and I can see babus in Delhi running helter skelter trying to do damage ctr Gng bck to old protectsm, givng it a new hindi tag doesnt change what it actually does: rob the country off its growth!

I am oftentimes asked to give advice on how best to partner with organizations to do science. In my experience, a key hurdle to overcome with organizational partners is that in nearly every case they argue that it is too costly. My response? The real cost of science within

When undergrads point out a behavioral paradox, a wise economist usually notes, "Firms maximize profits. People maximize utility." This is true! But it also blows the doors open to a Sociology of Economics where we then must investigate what people *think* their incentives are

This just feels just off, for India How do people look at this and talk about demographic dividend. If at all.. it looks quite the opposite ... the per capita seems to be totally killing everything. Median Indian is still not able to exercise their economic agency.

Rafe Meager (they/them) i didn’t know you went to Rome last summer! I assume this was a typo for “they”, “Australian”. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip! 😀

The post: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/us… It includes detailed examples, including the full Claude Code process I used to build this new Colophon page, which presents the Git commit histories for each of my collection of LLM-assisted web tools in one place tools.simonwillison.net/colophon

I am happy to announce that our Econ. paper template (a.k.a “aea” extension) has been added to the Quarto article listing. I will soon update our github repo to include a more detailed instructions to use this template! Spread the words :) quarto.org/docs/extension…

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

One stylized fact that is surprisingly robust: no one knows less about India than Indians themselves …