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02/08/24 • 96 min
Today my guest is Rahul Matthan, a technology lawyer and partner at Trilegal. He assisted the Indian government in developing India’s data privacy law and he is the author of the recent books Privacy 3.0 and The Third Way. We spoke about India’s digital public infrastructure revolution, India’s unified payments system, AI, blockchain, the design issues around India’s NCPI, Aadhaar, privacy, and much more.
Recorded January 22nd, 2024.
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11/14/24 • 54 min
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I spoke with Kushagr Bakshi is a Michigan International and Comparative Law Scholar and an SJD candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also received his LLM. He received his first law degree from NUJS in West Bengal. We discussed a chapter of his dissertation called “The Country Without a Post Office: Jammu and Kashmir and the Imaginations of Freedom Within a Federation. We talked about assymetrical federalism versus hetererarchy, constitutional values and imagination for federalism in India, and much more.
Recorded October 24th, 2024.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:06) - Grand Tamasha
(00:04:12) - Asymmetric Versus Heterarchical Federalism
(00:19:37) - Isn’t this Asymmetric Federalism?
(00:31:39) - Democracy in Local Governments
(00:43:27) - Rethinking the Rajya Sabha
(00:53:30) - Outro
A Conversation on Talent
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09/01/22 • 68 min
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross about their new book, “Talent: How To Identify Energizers, Creatives and Winners Around the World.” They discuss how to identify and attract talent, competition vs. cooperation, the necessity of failure and resilience, effects of immigration on talent and much more. Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is co-author of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and co-founder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University. Gross is a start-up investor in technology businesses including Uber, Instacart, Coinbase, GitHub and SpaceX. He co-founded Pioneer, a quantitative start-up accelerator, and was a partner at Y-Combinator and started its AI program.
This conversation is also being released as a bonus episode of Cowen’s biweekly podcast, Conversations with Tyler.
Recorded June 29th, 2022
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Anoop Jain on Sanitation and Infrastructure in India
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10/27/22 • 34 min
This episode is the fourth installment of a series in which Shruti speaks with doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars about their research as they enter the job market and the world of academia. In this episode, Shruti talks with Anoop Jain about his paper, “‘Someone Should Be There To Take Care of It’: A Case Study of Users’ Views of Managed Shared Sanitation Facilities in Jharkhand, India.” They discuss whether toilets should be private or shared, who should build and maintain shared toilets, the need for better infrastructure and much more. Jain is the founding director of Sanitation and Health Rights in India, an organization that fights to eliminate open defecation throughout India. He has an M.P.H. from Tulane University and received his Doctor of Public Health from UC Berkeley in 2019. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, where his research examines the combined effects of multiple deprivations faced by households on population-level health outcomes.
Recorded September 7th, 2022
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2024 in Review
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12/26/24 • 79 min
Today the roles are reversed. Producer Dallas Floer interviews Shruti for the annual end of year episode where they look back at key themes and episodes from the past year, address listener questions, discuss the job market series, and share some questions from previous guests.
On behalf of Shruti and the entire Ideas of India team, thank you for listening to the podcast this year. We’re excited to bring you more episodes in 2025.
Recorded November 26th, 2024.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:23) - Listener Questions
(00:02:27) - Essential readings on the Indian economy
(00:04:19) - The economy of eastern India from 1970 to today
(00:06:18) - Achieving a “Developed India”
(00:09:20) - Alternate paths for economic students
(00:014:56) - Suggested dissertation topics for PhD students
(00:18:57) - Revising stances on COVID shutdowns
(00:24:42) - Problematic TV news programs in India
(00:27:57) - Predicting the economic impact of AI
(00:30:11) - The South Korean chaebol model
(00:38:24) - Karthik Muralidharan: reimagining state capacity
(00:41:02) - Aparna Chandra: institutional checks on judicial bias
(00:44:03) - Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton: critical reforms to maintain growth
(00:47:29) - Ruchir Sharma: the state of American capitalism
(00:51:00) - The Job Market Series
(00:54:01) - Questions from Past Guests
(00:56:59) - Shifting stances on schooling and drugs
(01:02:11) - Law and economics
(01:05:36) - “Home” when living in many cultures
(01:09:44) - Next up for The 1991 Project
(01:11:31) - Personal goals for 2025
(01:16:26) - Thanks and Good Wishes
(01:18:29) - Outro
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin on How the World Became Rich
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08/18/22 • 94 min
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin about their new book, “How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth.” They discuss the link between technological innovation and growth, the importance of global market competition, positive and negative effects of colonialism, the methodology of economic history and much more. Koyama is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is interested in how historical institutions functioned and in the relationship between culture and economic performance. Rubin is a professor of economics at Chapman University. His research focuses on historical relationships between political and religious institutions and their role in economic development.
Recorded July 27th, 2022
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10/14/21 • 28 min
This episode is the first in a mini-series of weekly short episodes featuring young scholars entering the academic job market who discuss their latest research. In this episode, Shruti speaks with Arkadev Ghosh about his job market paper titled, Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India. They discuss the effects of inter-religion work groups on team productivity, how wider political tensions can affect the workplace and much more. Ghosh is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of British Columbia. He obtained his master’s in economics at the London School of Economics and his bachelor’s degree at the University of Edinburgh.
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09/15/22 • 34 min
This episode is the first installment of a series in which Shruti speaks with doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars about their research as they enter the job market and the world of academia. In this episode, Shruti talks with Nishant Vats about his job market paper (co-authored with Pulak Ghosh), “Safety Nets, Credit and Productive Activity: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program for Small Entrepreneurs.” Vats is a Ph.D. candidate in finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. His primary research interests are finance and development, financial intermediation and corporate finance, with a secondary interest in macroeconomics and political economy.
Recorded September 8th, 2022
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09/29/22 • 29 min
This episode is the second installment of a series in which Shruti speaks with doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars about their research as they enter the job market and the world of academia. In this episode, Shruti talks with Raahil Madhok about his job market paper, “The Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff in India’s Forests.” They discuss the effects of different types of infrastructure projects, state capacity, the Forest Rights Act, bird-watching and much more. Madhok is a Ph.D. candidate in the Food and Resource Economics Group at the Faculty of Land and Food systems at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on environmental and development economics.
Recorded September 7th, 2022
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10/03/24 • 57 min
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This is the 2024 job market series where I speak with young scholars entering the academic job market about the latest research in India.
I spoke with Sukrit Puri, who is a PhD candidate in political science at MIT and an Elinor Ostrom fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research focus is on the entanglement between business and politics in emerging economies, and his dissertation focuses on family firms in India. We discussed his job market paper, Corporate Kinship: Political Attachments of the Family Firm, we talked about how family firms differ from management and expert run businesses in India, whether it is in their firm structure or their political giving, whether family firms are most strategic or expressive in politics, the differences in the nature of the quid pro quo for a family firm versus a management run firm, the latest electoral bond scheme, and much more.
Recorded September 11th, 2024.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:16) - Grand Tamasha
(00:03:05) - Analyzing Family-Run Firms and Campaign Donations
(00:07:06) - How Family Businesses Donate Politically in Relation to Corporations and Individuals
(00:10:17) - Distinctions Between Family-Run and Non-Family-Run Firms
(00:14:48) - Political Donations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Overlap or Distinct Strategies?
(00:19:35) - The Hidden Side of Campaign Contributions
(00:25:56) - Ethnic Identity in Relation to Expressive Giving
(00:28:59) - Challenges in Measuring Quid Pro Quo Arrangements
(00:35:55) - The Impact of Demonetization on Political Donations
(00:37:06) - Assessing the Reaction to the Information Shock from Mandated Disclosures
(00:45:22) - Understanding the Reputational Impact of Political Donations
(00:51:15) - Is Uncertainty a Factor?
(00:57:11) - Outro
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How many episodes does Ideas of India have?
Ideas of India currently has 126 episodes available.
What topics does Ideas of India cover?
The podcast is about India, Society & Culture, Development, Podcasts, Economics, Social Sciences and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Ideas of India?
The episode title 'Rahul Matthan on AI, Privacy, and Digital Public Infrastructure' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Ideas of India?
The average episode length on Ideas of India is 69 minutes.
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Episodes of Ideas of India are typically released every 14 days.
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The first episode of Ideas of India was released on Aug 6, 2020.
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