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24-Nov-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
The ideology of social scientists: A complex balance
The conflict between liberty and equality is often central to ideological differences among social scientists
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29-Sep-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Social democracy and capitalism: The fraught link
Different people mean different things when they talk of social democracy and its somewhat close kin, democratic socialism
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12-Aug-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Prospects of social democracy in a post-pandemic world
This should be seen as neither a straight prediction nor just wishful thinking, more a clear-eyed analysis of constraints and opportunities that social democrats may face or have to be prepared for
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10-Jun-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Minimum economic security is not unaffordable
In the concluding part, the author lays down the fiscal arithmetic for an illustrative UBI supplement in India
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09-Jun-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Citizens' right to minimum economic security
Look at UBI primarily as a means of relieving economic insecurity, not economic inequality
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09-Jun-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Universal basic income in a post-pandemic world
Resources for a reasonable guaranteed basic income may be within the realm of fiscal feasibility even for poor countries
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29-Apr-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Decentralise relief policy
Regional diversity in policy measures to deal with the coronavirus challenge and its economic fallout is essential for India
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19-Apr-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Her voice amid lurking danger: Reflections on some feminist crime novels
It goes without saying that not all of the female crime novelists come out as feminists, and that some male writers can do feminist crime novels quite well.
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18-Feb-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
An uphill battle for protecting the essence of liberal democracy
It is vitally important particularly at a time when the Achilles Heel of liberal democracy everywhere looks grievously exposed
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18-Feb-2020 | Pranab Bardhan
Minority rights have become the Achilles heel of liberal democracy
Without strength of numbers and often without strength of wealth, minority groups lost out in the democratic bargaining process
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12-Nov-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Development economics after the Nobel Prize
In a world of crushing inequality and aggregate demand stagnation, the new laureates bring some cheer in showing us that incremental changes pursued steadfastly can add up to a lot
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31-Oct-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Why civic nationalism must trump rabid ethnic nationalism
The author concludes that it is necessary to build healthy alternatives to the kinds of rabid ethnic nationalism that we see all around
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30-Oct-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Nationalism: When an inclusive version is supplanted by a narrow definition
In the first of a two-part series, the author talks about the form of nationalism that is being attempted to be dismantled by the Hindu nationalists
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28-Sep-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
In memory of Marty Weitzman, a man intolerant of humbug and pomposity
Marty Weitzman was undoubtedly one of the greatest environmental economists in the world today
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05-Sep-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Inequality can be economically harmful, not just ethically distasteful
In the concluding part of the series, the author explores the variety of reasons why inequality can have serious inefficiency consequences
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04-Sep-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
How inequality can lead to inefficient economic outcomes
In the second part of the series, the author says there is evidence that inequality has encouraged excessive risk-taking in the financial sector and might have been partly responsible for the 2007-08
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04-Sep-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Does inequality matter when poverty is falling?
To moral and political philosophers steeped in the theory of justice, inequality in society may simply be ethically distasteful
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13-Jul-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Small-town fiction in South India: We are not in Malgudi anymore
Pranab Bardhan selects three books to explain how the depiction in fiction today of life in small town India is far away from the ordered world of Malgudi
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23-May-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Dilemmas of community participation
A return to community norms and cultural visions, without encouraging exclusivity and barriers, is an extremely delicate task, says the author in the concluding part of a series
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23-May-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Can local communities save liberal democracy?
Liberals should beware of communitarian romanticism, as 'community failures' are as important as market and government failure
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23-Mar-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Upcoming challenges for two of the largest democracies - India & Indonesia
The fate of democracy in both India and Indonesia remains precarious. In both, the main threat to pluralist democracy is identity-based majoritarian nationalism
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16-Feb-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
The Chinese governance system: Impressive strengths and appalling flaws
Chinese development model has produced a rapid pace of economic growth over the last three decades and lifted hundreds of millions of people above the poverty line
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30-Nov-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
Russia's dead souls: A tale of two movies and the statue of Anna Akhmatova
Hope flickers in our minds for a country where such movies are made against all odds, including disapproval of the authorities
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18-Oct-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
The issues in privatisation
The author contends that liberalism does not imply unconditional support for privatisation and that there are ethical issues of market competition that liberal economists usually overlook
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18-Oct-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
Pros and cons of neo-liberal competition
The author discusses effects of market competition on inequality, innovation and suggests that opposition to crony oligarchy and advocacy of worker representation should be compatible with liberalism
