Ajay Shah writing for the mass media (2025)
- We need to talk about China by Renuka Sane and Ajay Shah, 28 April 2025. kw = Chinese economy after a Trump retreat on the trade war, global macro, implications for India.
- Is Globalization Doomed?, Episode 96 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 25 April 2025. kw = modern critique of globalisation, trade wars
- The Globalisation Episode, Episode 95 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 18 April 2025. kw = fundamentals of globalisation
- A new Plaza Accord? by Ila Patnaik and Ajay Shah, 14 April 2025. kw = USD, safe haven, Mar a lago accord, state capability.
- Good Gyan 2, Episode 94 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 11 April 2025. kw = aphorisms and improv
- The Good Gyan Episode, Episode 93 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 04 April 2025. kw = aphorisms and improv
- Implications of US tariffs, 31 March. kw = US tariffs of 2 April, liberation day.
- Rules, Not Discretion, Episode 92 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 28 March 2025. kw = Kydland and Prescott 1977, time consistency
- Separation Of Powers, Episode 91 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 21 March 2025. kw = dispersion of power, liberal democracy, legislative executive judicial branches, Administrative Procedures Act, Chevron doctrine, regulators in India.
- A dark moment in CO2 control, 17 March. kw = Trump, decarbonisation, hope.
- Constraints and creativity, Episode 90 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 14 March. kw = Constrained optimisations, thinking out of the box.
- Industrial policy, Episode 89 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 7 March. kw = picking winners, enabling winners, central planning, socialism.
- Two divergent measures, 3 March. kw = economic policy uncertainty, VIX, market discipline.
- Free speech, Episode 88 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 28 February. kw = costs and benefits, state capability, enlightenment values.
- Moore's laws, Episode 87 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 21 February. kw = Moore's law, Wright's law, Goddard's law, Firm productivity, economic growth.
- The heart of disruption, Episode 86 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 14 February 2025. kw = heart attacks, treatments for heart attacks, disruptive thinkers, social conditions that enable disruptive think.
- Underrated, overrated, complicated, Episode 85 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 7 February 2025. kw = Deltas from the mass culture.
- How to make episodic deregulation work, 17 February. kw = regulatory theory, India, root cause solutions.
- A new direction in science policy by R. A. Mashelkar, Ajay Shah, Susan Thomas, Indian Express, 6 February. kw = innovation policy, contracting-out, make vs. buy, ANRF, GPUs.
- The levers of government, 1 February 2025. kw = The questions for Indian economic policy, Budget 2025.
- The age of hybrid warfare, Episode 84 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 31 January 2025. kw = under the threshold, FIMI.
- Atheism, Episode 83 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 24 January 2025. kw = religion.
- US export restrictions on AI chips: Implications for India, 20 January 2025. kw = tech wars, China, self reliance, foreign policy.
- Invisible infrastructure, Episode 82 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 17 January 2025. kw = transplantation of ideas across countries, API calls, public choice theory, checks and balances, incentives.
- Life lessons from chess in 2024, Episode 81 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 10 January 2025. kw = chess, life lessons.
- Stop-start in currency flexibility harms economic growth, 6 January 2025. kw = exchange rate flexibility, organisation capabilities of firms, bond-currency-derivatives nexus, political economy.
- Going bankrupt in India, Episode 80 of Everything is everything (with Amit Varma), 3 January 2025. kw = IBC, the Indian bankruptcy reform.
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