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Shruti Rajagopalan on the Past, Present, and Future of the Indian Economy

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 4:30 a.m.

Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center where she leads the programs Indian Political Economy Research and the Emergent Ventures India. Shruti joins David on Macro Musings to discuss the past, present and future of the Indian economy. Specifically, Shruti and David discuss India\u2019s mid-20th century experiment with socialism, subsequent reforms from 1980 through the 2000s, and how further reforms to manufacturing and to land and labor markets can accelerate its economic development.

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Transcript for the episode can be found here.

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Shruti\u2019s Twitter: @srajagopalan

Shruti\u2019s Mercatus profile: https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/shruti-rajagopalan

Shruti\u2019s podcast, *Ideas of India*: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/tag/ideas-of-india-podcast/https://www.mercatus.org/tags/ideas-india

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Related Links:

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*India Grows at Night* by Gurcharan Das

https://www.amazon.com/India-Grows-At-Night-Liberal/dp/0670084700

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*In India, Don\u2019t Hate the Matchmaker* by Shruti Rajagopalan

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-02/netflix-s-indian-matchmaking-is-only-too-accurate

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*It\u2019s Chiefly Rent Seekers Who Oppose Our Farm Reforms* by Shruti Rajagopalan

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/it-s-chiefly-rent-seekers-who-oppose-our-farm-reforms-11601304066126.html

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David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

David\u2019s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/