Envisioning an India-US free trade agreement; Rethinking innovation policy in India; episodes

Envisioning an India-US free trade agreement

In the conventional wisdom, this is an age of nationalism, where the sensible economics of globalisation is being forgotten. In my column in the Business Standard of yesterday, Envisioning an India-US free trade agreement, I draw on wisdom from Daniel Rothschild at the 2024 EMC about the political feasibility of an India-US free trade agreement in 2025, and sketch the contours of the issues that would feature in the negotiation.

Rethinking innovation policy in India

Sanjay Kallapur and others are building a new journal, Accounting theory and practice. The paper Rethinking innovation policy in India: Amplifying spillovers through contracting-out by R. A. Mashelkar, Susan Thomas and me has appeared in their Volume 1. Also see the landing page for this paper on the XKDR Forum website. This paper is innovative in rethinking innovation policy in India, and draws on the body of knowledge that we have been building at XKDR Forum on government contracting.

Episodes

13 December: Episode 77 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Objects from our past.

20 December: Episode 78 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, The case for nuclear electricity.