How Big Government is harming us

The claim that public sector enterprises... were largely loss-incurring, and continued to incur losses is followed by an interesting study that [these] are, in fact, very profitable

India’s Big Government

The Intrusive State & How It’s Hurting Us

Vivek Kaul

Equitymaster Agora Research

793 pages; Rs 999

In this nearly 800-page tome, Vivek Kaul — writer, economist and author of the well-known Easy Money trilogy — critically dissects the complexities of expansive and promising Indian policies from an unbiased researcher’s perspective. India’s Big Government: The Intrusive State & How It’s Hurting Us is an unconventional, interdisciplinary book that cuts across sectors of banking, infrastructure, education, manufacturing and industry, land, taxation, and employment in post-Independence India, underscoring the necessity for the state to more effectively address critical matters, rather than attempting to do