Ajay Shah writing for the mass media (2024)
- Resurrecting the wealth tax and estate duty, 28 April 2024. kw = growth, redistribution, populism.
- Maps are magic, Episode 44 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 26 April 2024. kw = public goods, survey of India, google maps, OSM, George Everest
- Six stories that should be films, Episode 43 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 19 April 2024. kw = Stories, Scapa flow, Nanda Devi plutonium
- Paths to a political business cycle, 14 April 2024. kw = election cycle, monetary policy, fiscal policy, uncertainty, government investment.
- The populist playbook, Episode 42 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 12 April 2024. kw = Populism, recent developments in the US, Israel, Hungary, Poland
- Four papers that changed the world, Episode 41 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 5 April 2024. kw = Friedman 1968, Hayek 1945, Coase 1937, Bastiat 1850
- Firms in a tough global environment, 1 April 2024. kw = third globalisation, carbon border taxes, Chinese exports surge, protectionism, strategy for Indian firms and finance.
- The brave new future of electricity, Episode 40 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 29 March 2024. kw = electricity, renewables, price system, solar, wind, storage, nuclear, foreign policy, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, offshore wind, Tamil Nadu.
- The surface area of serendipity, Episode 39 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 22 March 2024. kw = luck, tradeoffs, the craft and the hustle, six degrees of separation
- Three grand challenges of the Indian energy transition by Akshay Jaitly and Ajay Shah, 18 March 2024. kw = union and state, india and world, state and market, discovery not design, climate transition, decarbonisation.
- Poker and life, Episode 38 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 15 March 2024. kw = poker, finance, thinking probabilistically
- From imperial to adaptive firms, Episode 37 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 8 March 2024. kw = coase, boundary of the firm, centralised firms, decentralised firms, intra-india heterogeneity, european union
- The evenings are hard, 4 March 2024. kw = duck curve, price system, grid manager.
- The long road to change, Episode 36 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 1 March 2024. kw = policy pipeline, endurance, progress
- The hiking episode, Episode 35 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 23 February 2024. kw = hiking, how, why, gear
- Stocktaking the fintech revolution, 19 February 2024. kw = fintech, central planning, national champions, banks, NBFCs.
- Organisation design for a family firm, Episode 34 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 16 February 2024. kw = family firms, governance, CEO, great man theory, board of directors
- Public choice theory explains so much, Episode 33 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 9 February 2024. kw = public choice theory, elections
- Are financial markets over-optimistic?, 5 February 2024. kw = global macro, five threats.
- Unix, Episode 32 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 2 February 2024. kw = Bell Labs, Internet, Free software, Culture, Innovation policy.
- Strategic thinking in fiscal policy, 2 February 2024. kw = financial leverage, operational leverage, debt crises, debt dynamics, primary deficit, financial repression, the path ahead for Indian fiscal policy.
- A deep dive into the Indian military, Episode 31 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 26 January 2024. kw = Defence economics, Perun
- The reconfiguration of global trade and FDI, 22 January 2024. kw = third globalisation, China.
- Declutter, Episode 30 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 19 January 2024. kw = Minimalism, Robin Dunbar's number.
- Five epic stories that must be films, Episode 29 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 12 January 2024. kw = Mes el Kebir, Doolittle raid, The battle of Kiev.
- From domestic to global asset pricing, 8 January 2024. kw = firm internationalisation, foreign investor strategy, domestic investor strategy, firm strategy.
- The reformers, Episode 28 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 5 January 2024. kw = india, stories from the economic reforms.
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