Economy and development
Growth, trade, poverty, business and development.
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.2)
Part 1.2 of the Meltdown Bhāṣya commentary on verse 1.1.1 sketches a history of capitalism, commoditisation and production, tracing how Nick Land’s idea of a technocapital singularity draws on Deleuze…
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New writing ideas
Notes on possible future posts, including one on how the Hindu epics made geographical India into cultural India, and a commenter’s argument that coastal connectivity explains why some Indian states…
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H1B Open Thread
Open thread on H-1B visas; the author sees the Persian Gulf states emerging as a conduit between capital, labour and technology while the West raises walls.
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GST reform – go big Modiji, let the bizmen breathe
A guest writer argues that Narendra Modi’s planned GST reform, cutting rates from four to two, will not fix the system’s deeper problem: discretionary powers to block input tax credit,…
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Browncast: Trump, Tariffs, Hurt Feelings, and India..
Omar Ali talks with Kushal Mehra, host of the Carvaka podcast, and regular contributor Amey Chaugle about the public war of words between the USA and India, partly over Indian…
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US Economics and Theory of Collapse
Citing the national debt, deficits and a Moody’s downgrade, the post debates whether the US faces economic decline, then applies Joseph Tainter’s theory of diminishing returns on complexity, pointing to…
