Blogs about: Economic Quackery
How to be a Finance Minister (Florence Nightingale Might Have Liked)
wrote 2 years ago: From Facebook, April 27 2011: Subroto Roy reflects on what the role is of a Finance Minister/Treasur … more →
Did the GoI's MoF's CEA certify India's fiscal health yesterday? If so, it is a mistaken certificate
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wrote 2 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy reads that Dr Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser to the Finance Ministr … more →
(Yet Another) Memo to Dr Kaushik Basu
wrote 3 years ago: Dear Kaushik, Apropos your reported predictions, I have had to say at Facebook: Subroto Roy is appa … more →
(Another) Memo to Dr Kaushik Basu
wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy says to Kaushik: Dear Kaushik, Buffer-stock interventions are *microecon … more →
Climate Change Alarmism: The real battle is against corruption, pollution, deforestation, energy waste etc
wrote 3 years ago: Last year I wrote but happened not to publish this brief article which may be relevant today. Climat … more →
"On the blissful innocence of the RBI" (2009), plus "A Small Challenge to the RBI’s Governor Subbarao"(2010)
wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy can only sigh at the fact that while he has had to struggle for 35 years … more →
“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.
wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy is hurt that Christopher Booker says “Not for nothing was Copenhag … more →
Reflections on Mr Zoellick's reported claim
wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy says that there are no viable macroeconomic models or time series data in … more →
Question for the Sonia-Manmohan Govt: is a little polo in Washington expected to benefit India's "aam admi"?
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wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy must ask Dr Manmohan Singh’s Government how it sees India’s … more →
An observation about official economic thought in India
wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy wonders if India’s most eminent academic economist and India … more →
Has business-cycle theory become easy for the dimwitted?
wrote 3 years ago: From Facebook: Subroto Roy is amazed that business-cycle theory and history — always a most d … more →
A Discussion Regarding Mr Nilekani's Public Project
wrote 3 years ago: In response to my “Nandan Nilekani’s Nonsensical Numbering”, Friendly Critic says: I don … more →
Nandan Nilekani's Nonsensical Numbering (Updated to 11 January 2013)
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wrote 3 years ago: Original post: 14 Sep 2009 I have been a rather harsh critic of Indian English-language media but I … more →
Finally, a dozen years late, the Sonia-Manmohan Congress takes a small Rajivist step: Yes Prime Minister, our Judiciary is indeed a premier public good (or example of "infrastructure" to use that dreadful bureaucratic term)
wrote 3 years ago: I was very harsh and did not beat about the bush in my Sep 23-24 2007 article in The Statesman “Aga … more →
Q: What is common to swine flu, a weak monsoon, climate change, America's financial crisis and Pakistani terrorism?
wrote 3 years ago: A: They are all external or exogenous factors that the Government of India’s leaders, spokesme … more →
Does the Govt. of India assume “foreign investors and analysts” are a key constituency for Indian economic policy-making? If so, why so? Have Govt. economists "learnt nothing, forgotten everything"? Some Bastille Day thoughts
wrote 3 years ago: Today is Bastille Day in France and the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, at the invitatio … more →
Will someone please teach the BJP's gerontocracy some Economics 101 on an emergency basis?
wrote 4 years ago: Two years ago, I said in “Political Paralysis”, “[I]f Atal Behari Vajpayee and Lal … more →
India's incredibly volatile inflation rate!
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wrote 4 years ago: Some months ago India’s inflation rate was said to be the highest it has been for decades and … more →
India's "pork-barrel politics" needs a nice (vegetarian) Hindi name! "Teli/oily politics" perhaps? (And are we next going to see a Bill of Rights for Lobbyists?)
wrote 4 years ago: “Pork barrel politics” has been known as a concept in America and other Western countri … more →
