Electricity: A strategic view; The art and science of economic policy, on Coursera; Episodes

Electricity: A strategic view

Akshay Jaitly, K. P. Krishnan and I put together a compact strategic picture on the inter-related fields of electricity and finance. This appeared as a column in the Business Standard on 5 August. There is a large gap in the pace of decarbonisation. Changing this requires a strong reforms process in the interlinked areas of electricity and finance. The magnitudes of resourcing involved are larger than anything that either sector has seen before.

The art and science of economic policy, on Coursera

Aromar Revi, Vijay Kelkar and I built a course, The Art and Science of Economic Policy. This was based on the book In service of the republic: The art and science of economic policy. This is a part of the `Digital blended learning’ initiative at IIHS. The course now has 7,013 `learners’, 4,005 `active learners’ and 1,826 completers.

Episodes

26 July: Episode 57 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Development economics.

1 August: Discussion on the union budget, with Suyash Rai, on the Carnegie India `Interpreting India’ podcast.

2 August: Episode 58 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Economic policy strategy for Himalayan states.