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    Ideas of India

    Through conversations with top thinkers in the social sciences and beyond, economist Shruti Rajagopalan explores the ideas that will propel India forward.

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    Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry Apr 11, 2024
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    Today my guest is Pranay Kotasthane who is the deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme.

    Pranay co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics, policy, and technology. He is the co-author of - Missing in Action: Why Should You Care About Public Policy, and the graphic nonfiction narrative We, the Citizens. He has co-edited India's Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order.

    Today we are discussing his most recent book, When the Chips Are Down, coauthored with Abhiram Manchi. We spoke the evolution of the semiconductor industry, industrial targeting, Moore's law, Rock's law, Taiwan's Comparative advantage, whether India can lead in semiconductor chips and more.

    Recorded March 12th, 2024.

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    Timestamps

    (00:00:00) - Intro

    (00:08:35) - Moore's Law

    (00:14:08) - Rock's Law

    (00:21:41) - Geopolitics of the Semiconducter Industry

    (00:27:46) - Metacritical Technologies

    (00:38:49) - Geographical Concentration

    (00:48:34) - Zelenograd

    (00:59:44) - Unease of doing Business in India

    (01:09:45) - Industrial Targeting in Taiwan

    (01:30:57) - Outro

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    Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations Mar 28, 2024
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    Today my guests are M. Krishnan and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished scientist of the Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an economist specializing in trade and international policy. He is a Fellow at the (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, where he formerly led the institution's sections on Trade and Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation, and Vision India@2047.

    Today we are discussing their recent coauthored paper titled Indian Fisheries in the Context of WTO Regulations, published by the Mercatus Center in collaboration with Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. We spoke about the big issues concerning fisheres, in particular, India's interests in at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) recently held in Abu Dhabi.

    Recorded March 13th, 2024.

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    Timestamps

    (00:00:00) - Intro

    (00:01:50) - Fisheries in India

    (00:13:46) - Overfishing and Illegal Fishing in India

    (00:19:59) - Overfishing Negotiations

    (00:22:01) - Subsidies

    (00:26:27) - At the Negotiating Table

    (00:28:24) - IUUs

    (00:33:01) - Seasonal Fishing Ban

    (00:37:33) - Leading the Global South

    (00:45:17) - Measurement

    (00:48:47) - Domestic Politics

    (00:53:35) - The Future

    (00:59:38) - Outro

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    Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial Mar 14, 2024
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    Aparna Chandra is a constitutional scholar and associate professor of law at the National Law school in Bangalore. She is the coauthor, along with Sital Kalantry and William Hubbard of the recent book Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India. We spoke about the problem of pendency across all courts in the Indian judiciary, whether the Supreme Court is truly a people's court, the problem of special leave petitions, potential ways to reform the judiciary, and much more.

    Recorded February 16th, 2024.

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    Timestamps

    (00:01:12) - Function of the Supreme Court

    (00:07:05) - Special Leave Petition (SLP)

    (00:13:57) - A People's Court?

    (00:35:56) - Fast tracks and VIP Culture

    (00:48:25) - Malice, Incompetence or Compassion?

    (00:52:03) - People Like Us

    (01:04:41) - Ending SLPs

    (01:23:15) - Too Cool for Rules

    (01:29:51) - Chief Justice as First Among Equals

    (01:33:50) - Outro

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    Doug Irwin on the History and Political Economy of Trade Policy Feb 22, 2024
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    This is our 100th episode and I want to thank our listeners, the guests who have been exceptionally generous with their time and insights, the fantastic team at Mercatus that helps me produce and disseminate the podcast, and to all our donors and supporters.

    Today my guest is Douglas Irwin, who is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of dozens of books and papers, most recently, Clashing over Commerce, which is a magisterial history of US trade policy. We spoke about India's liberalization moment in 1991, the five phases of globalization, British repeal of Corn laws, premature deindustrialization, the relevance of the WTO, absolute versus comparative advantage, the future Argentina, and much more.

    Recorded January 23rd, 2024.

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    Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure Feb 08, 2024
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    Today my guest is Rahul Matthan, a technology lawyer and partner at Trilegal. He assisted the Indian government in developing India's data privacy law and he is the author of the recent books Privacy 3.0 and The Third Way. We spoke about India's digital public infrastructure revolution, India's unified payments system, AI, blockchain, the design issues around India's NCPI, Aadhaar, privacy, and much more.

    Recorded January 22nd, 2024.

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    Aditya Balasubramanian on Swatantra Party and Opposition Politics in India Jan 25, 2024
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    Aditya Balasubramanian is a Senior Lecturer in History at Australian National University. His research focuses on various aspects of the history of modern South Asia. And he is the author of the new book, Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. We spoke about the history of a conservative and ideological opposition politics of India, influence of BR Shenoy and more generally the Austrian economists on Swatratra party, about C Rajagopalachari, other members, and much more.

    Recorded December 22nd, 2023.

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    The Art of Talking Films with Nasreen Munni Kabir Jan 11, 2024
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    Today my guest is Nasreen Munni Kabir, a documentary filmmaker, TV producer and director, author, biographer, translator/subtitler, and an absolute authority on all things Hindi cinema. We spoke about her biographical conversation series of books with artists like Javed Akhtar, Gulzar, Lata Mangeshkar, Waheeda Rahman, Zakir Hussain, AR Rahman. We also spoke about her documentary films on Guru Dutt, and television series Movie Mahal chronicling the history of Hindi cinema, how she chooses her subjects, the difficulty of subtitling Hindi films, her favorite films, songs, artists, and much more.

    Recorded December 12th, 2023.

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    2023 in Review Dec 28, 2023
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    Today the roles are reversed. In the 2023 end of the year review episode, producer Dallas Floer asks Shruti questions from our listeners about Shruti's ideas of India, how Shruti prepares for the podcast, various guests, the most listened to and the most underrated episode picks of the year, and much more.

    Recorded December 12th, 2023.

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    Rajat Kochhar on Agricultural Market Power and Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change Dec 14, 2023
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    Our last scholar in the series this year is Rajat Kocchar, a post-doctoral scholar at University of Chicago's Energy and Environment Lab. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California, and his research lies in the field of environmental economics, in particular, on the understanding the factors that incentivize adaptation to climate shocks. We discussed his paper, "Does Market Power in Local Agricultural Markets Hinder Farmer Climate Change Adaptation?" We talked about the impact of distortionary policies and regulations on farmer's ability to cope with weather shocks in India, the agricultural produce market system, the choice of crop mix, and the effectiveness of water audits in the UK and much more.

    Recorded September 21st, 2023.

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    Vani Swarupa Murali on the Lack of Decentralization in India and Its impact on Water Depletion Nov 30, 2023
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    Shruti spoke with Vani Swarupa Murali a PhD. Candidate and an instructor at the South Asian Studies Department in the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has a Masters in Asian Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. Her research lies at the intersection of political science and agricultural policy and environmental governance. We spoke about "When Sowing is not Reaping: Decentralisation, Groundwater Extraction and Agrarian Livelihoods in Tamil Nadu." We talked about the overly centralized administrative, political, and fiscal Indian state, its impact on farmers' livelihood, groundwater depletion and other environmental consequences, and more.

    Recorded August 31st, 2023.

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