Ajay Shah writing for the mass media (2025)
- State action to combat digital fraud: A strategic view by Nandkumar Saravade and Ajay Shah, 4 August 2025. kw = digital fraud, clarity on loss allocation, coordination in the indian state between the economics complex and the security complex.
- How Much Wealth Do You Need To Retire?, Episode 110 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 01 August 2025. kw = retirement planning, long time horizons, increased longevity, international diversification, equity investment, uncertainty over long time horizons.
- Economics In One Lesson, Episode 109 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 25 July 2025. kw = Hazlitt
- Bombay and the rising sea, 21 July 2025. kw = rising water levels for coastal Indian cities, consequences for the urban built environment and real estate investment, implications for financial regulation, RBI progress.
- Accidental Politicians, Episode 108 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 18 July 2025. kw = Mark Carney, Vaclav Havel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Manmohan Singh, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- What These Labels Mean, Episode 107 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 11 July 2025. kw = Political Labels, Ideologies, Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Libertarianism, Nationalism, Patriotism, Statism, Progressivism, Wokeism, Populism, Political Philosophy, History of Ideas, Freedom, Individual Rights, State Power, Economic Systems.
- Choking China+1?, 7 July 2025. kw = foxconn, moving manufacturing work from China to India, rules versus discretion, rule of law.
- The World In 2050 , Episode 106 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 04 July 2025. kw = fifteen predictions for 2050.
- Is Manufacturing The Answer?, Episode 105 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 27 June 2025. kw = Manufacturing, India, development economics, services, economic growth, industrial policy, globalization, Global Value Chains, unskilled labor, automation, tradable services, India's growth story, Nicholas Kaldor, Wright's Law, Albert O. Hirschman, Hollis Chenery, economic development, productivity, state intervention, economic distortion, financial centers, agriculture, Netherlands, correlation vs. causality, Percy Mistry report, MIFC, international financial centre.
- Great leaders choose prosperity over pride, 22 June 2025. kw = Iran, Public choice theory, interests of the regime vs interests of the people, leadership.
- What Ails Indian Manufacturing?, Episode 104 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 20 June 2025. kw = 7 ways in which manufacturing is different from services, 12 problems which hold back manufacturing in India, union vs state on the 12 barriers.
- You Should Start A Business: Part 2, Episode 103 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 13 June 2025. kw = Starting a business
- Optimistic possibilities for Indian growth, 8 June 2025. kw = outlook on investment, interest rates, trade liberalisation, India's place in the global trade system.
- You Should Start A Business, Episode 102 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 06 June 2025. kw = Starting a business.
- Complexity Metrics For State Intervention, Episode 101 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 30 May 2025. kw = Woolcock and Pritchett 2004, number of transactions, amount of secrecy, stakes, secrecy.
- Gains on payment system regulation, 25 May 2025. kw = payments regulation, payments board, regulatory theory.
- Ask Me Everything!, Episode 100 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 23 May 2025. kw = AMA the second
- Where Indian Regulation Went Wrong, Episode 99 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 16 May 2025. kw = Regulatory theory, FSLRC
- Improved government buying, 11 May 2025. kw = FTAs, foreign firms in Indian government buying, protectionism, problems of government contracting, public expenditure efficiency.
- Is Your State Legitimate?, Episode 98 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 09 May 2025. kw = State legitimacy, public choice theory
- The Light In Winter, Episode 97 of Everything is Everything (with Amit Varma), 02 May 2025. kw = Spanish artists, creativity in old age
- 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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