The critique of neoliberalism is only one part of Joseph E. Stiglitz’s new book 'The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society'. The greater part of it is on freedom and how to further it.

Instead of transitioning to the role of a regulator of economic activity in the highlands of Kerala, where much of the new activity got located, the state has ended-up being captured by private interests.

'In Search of Answers: A Memoir' presents the life and times of Saradamoni who navigated the world on her own steam and formed a wide network of associations, professional and personal. This was unusual among the women of her time.

What accounts for this differential record of Nehru and Modi with respect to economic growth?

Pursue growth if you will but it would be naïve to not see that some of the things that matter from an economic point of view, such as employment, would not necessarily be served by it.

Gautam Chikermane’s ‘Reform Nation’ claims to be an economic history of India since independence. Actually, it’s a post-truth narrative about three decades of economic ‘reforms’ that ignores the history of growth, unencumbered by the need for evidence of outcomes.

Is democracy about procedural routines such as elections and guidebooks such as written constitutions, or is it about the transformations wrought after its adoption as the form of government?

A closer examination of Arvind Subramanian’s claim that India’s liberals have jettisoned principles.

When ethnicity or religion is the touchstone of politics, a society loses its capacity to think clearly about its future  – let alone make provision for a secure one.

The US government's two COVID-19 recovery packages combine to 25% of the country’s GDP in 2019. 

India has for too long adopted imported ideas such as the recommendations of the Washington Consensus without assessing their intrinsic worth or suitability.

While relief is of the essence in the short term, the far greater task is that of a reconstruction that must follow after the COVID-19 lockdown.

Declining per capita consumption is compatible with the growth of economy-wide income in the presence of a shift in the income distribution.

Resorting to secularism and federalism as the basis of a rejection of the constitution of India for Kashmir alone is not credible.

Pulapre Balakrishnan, professor of economics at Ashoka University, focuses on the lack of a clear roadmap to the $5 trillion economic aspirations of the government.

While remaining focused on initiatives to improve ease of doing business and interventions such as demonetisation, the government has lagged behind in building physical and social infrastructure.

A move allegedly aimed at ending the generation of unaccounted income that has nothing to say about the funding of political parties is not credible.

The RBI's decision to support the note ban and its flawed implementation have exacted a price from the economy in general but the poor in particular.