In Frontline, I write on the suggestion for inheritance taxes in India and the engineering of a bizarre and irrational atmosphere of fear around it. Economic inequality in India has skyrocketed, and it is only apt that the idea is openly discussed.

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Check out the latest episode about #decolonising #development ceterisneverparibus.net/decolonising-d……
Maria Bach interviews Rahul Sirohi & Sonya Surabhi Gupta about their book looking at alternative development narratives from India and Latin America

Podcast: a new episode of Ceteris Never Paribus is available now. In this episode, Maria Bach talks with Rahul Sirohi and Surabhi Gupta about their book on development discourses from India and Latin America

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1/ From today's The Hindu.

Let me put out a short thread on how this piece got written, and why I think it is important in the ongoing debate on Union-State economic relations. This was a topic I started looking at, first for some fun but later with some academic amusement.

Spending two days in life well is a nice thing in itself. I'm happy to note the 27th Annual Conference of the Indian Political Economy Association has been successfully conducted at SHSSM, IIT Bhubaneswar. We had many brilliant papers, two excellent Keynotes, and two panel discussions.

If you read this, read about a kid getting his arm amputated without anesthetic, and your response is simply to shrug and say ‘But Hamas…’ then you need to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror.

The US and UK are bombing Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, so that Israel can continue its genocide and mass displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza without disruption. That's the reality we're in.

As the year comes to an end, and we head into the holiday season, here’s D-Econ’s second reading list, which has our recommendations of books published in the latter part of 2023! d-econ.org/d-econs-season…

Rahul Sirohi and Sonya Surabhi Gupta’s book brings complex debates emerging from the Global South to a more general audience. The book furthers South-South engagement by discussing intellectual discourses from India and Latin America alongside each other & draw parallels between them

OnlineFirst - 'Corporate power and the rise of intangibles: A study of Indian firms' by Rahul A Sirohi:

#rentierism #intangibles #neoliberalism #monopoly #corporatepower #India

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Abstract submission deadline extended to 15th December 2023! Full paper due 31/12/2023. #economics

This project has been a long time coming (started in 2019!) so happy to finally have it out. It explores the development and implications of local currency bond markets in African countries in the context of international financial subordination (IFS).
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We ask our partner that, as the Government of Spain, we bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Here is my official statement 👇