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13-Jul-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
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
23-May-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
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
23-May-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
Liberals should beware of communitarian romanticism, as 'community failures' are as important as market and government failure
23-Mar-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
The fate of democracy in both India and Indonesia remains precarious. In both, the main threat to pluralist democracy is identity-based majoritarian nationalism
16-Feb-2019 | Pranab Bardhan
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
30-Nov-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
Hope flickers in our minds for a country where such movies are made against all odds, including disapproval of the authorities
18-Oct-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
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
18-Oct-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
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
16-Oct-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
In the first installment of a three-part series, the author finds that contrary to usual murky references to neo-liberalism, it is better to find a unifying thread in its variants
12-Aug-2018 | Pranab Bardhan
Our understanding and response to the populist challenges need to be suitably differentiated, a fact which seems to be overlooked in the large and growing flurry of writings on populism
14-Mar-2010 | Pranab Bardhan
The result of China¿s speedy economic recovery, even as the advanced nations continue to reel, is a hubris that bodes ill for both itself and the worl
21-Feb-2010 | Pranab Bardhan
The late economist inspired a generation to think big and to aim at understanding the larger political economy of India
28-Jan-2010 | Pranab Bardhan
Most obituaries have missed out some important aspects of Samuelson and Jyotibabu's life
20-Jan-2010 | Pranab Bardhan
Our civil administration is organised in a way that is not performance-based
11-Dec-2009 | Pranab Bardhan
Poverty fell in China before it really globalised and didn¿t go down in India despite its opening up.
26-Nov-2009 | Pranab Bardhan
Unlike India, corruption in authoritarian East Asian regimes is less damaging to the economy
28-Sep-2009 | Pranab Bardhan
It is well known that India has not yet succeeded in a massive expansion of the kind of labour-intensive manufacturing jobs that have transformed the economies of China and Vietnam. Most of the success stories of Indian performance have been mainly ...
23-Sep-2009 | Pranab Bardhan
The stalled Land Acquisition Bill should be completely overhauled
05-Sep-2009 | Pranab Bardhan
In economic writings it is commonplace to describe Indian economic inequality to be relatively low
29-Aug-2009 | Pranab Bardhan
Very few economists have ever claimed knowledge of the exact timing of a crisis
01-May-2008 | Pranab Bardhan
At a time when Asian countries are becoming more important economically and geo-politically, they should be wary of the dangers of ultra-nationalism.
