We’re glad to share that we hosted the Advanced Liberty & Society Seminar, our flagship program, from 27 to 30 September 2024 at the ISPP campus in New Delhi.  The event brought together 34 participants, including several CCS alumni, and 10 distinguished faculty of renowned

A Rail journey of 211 kms in Bihar has taken 8 hours and counting... It takes effort to be this inefficient! A complete absence of consumer protection for all things sarkari, is of course a given. Thank you, Ministry of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw East Central Railway Train number: 13228

One of the things I greatly appreciated about JD Vance in the final hours of the campaign was his insistence that politics is not more important than family. Don’t give up on your family because you disagree with who they voted for. You don’t often hear candidates say this,

It will be interesting to see how Musk and Ramaswamy go about cutting US government waste. Hopefully there will be learnings for other governments around the world. Maybe their work will inspire India to have its own DOGE someday soon.

Ah... A perfect way to capture #RegulatoryCapture! #PublicChoice

Great to see the hard work of my friend Abhinav Singh ready to be shared with the world. political economy of development is a fantastic course for anyone interested in exploring key questions of growth and development. Check out polekon: polekon.org/economic-devel…

I recommend a two-week course "Political Economy of Development" by Abhinav Singh. Centre for Civil Society blog.theleapjournal.org/2024/12/announ…

"Deflation is to rich people what inflation is to everyone else." - Young Gun

Instead, if we (truly) empower urban governments, need for smaller states won't be an issue anymore. Maybe empowering urban governments is more challenging than creating more states.

If you are part of the unlucky millions stuck with only the government-provided education, health, transport (railways), etc. - Good luck!! "The political market unlike economic markets, suffers from total absence of consumer protection." - Alan Reynolds, National Review

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Whoa!! Never thought I'll see Walter Block being quoted on the editorial pages of a mainstream Indian financial daily.

As Groucho said, "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." Of course, the politics quote repurposed for the government can't be as charitable.

Humour toh humara bhi accha hai but humare comedians pe FIR ho jaati hai.

Will be good to know what manufacturer (assuming it's one of the 'infant industry') benefits in the domestic market from all this protection? We know that all the domestic consumers foot the bill (high prices, low quality)! And all the jobs lost!! But fayada kiska?! Kab tak!?

With equal effectiveness, King Canute commanded the tide not to rise.

Many thanks for your kind invite, Gopal Krishna Agarwal ji. Appreciate your efforts towards dialogue and consensus building. As you wrote in ThePrintIndia: "India has to grow its GDP at over 8 per cent per annum on a sustained basis... We mustn’t squander this opportunity." Indeed!

In India, government jobs pay far more than equivalent jobs in the private sector–so much so that the entire labor market and educational system have become grossly distorted by rent seeking to obtain these jobs. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

The tyranny of experts!