Author: Ashok Nag

Who is afraid of China- Uncle Sam?

ITIF, a US-based nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute, was founded in 2006. A major area of concern for ITIF is ‘America’s competitive position in advanced technologies and industries that constitute the most strategically important sectors of the economy.’ To undertake focused research in this area, the Institute created the Hamilton Center of Industrial Strategy. […]

Nation, State and Government- A Dialogue with Chat GPT and Copilot

Ashok Nag Mr. Rahul Gandhi, the current leader of the opposition in the Indian parliament, has made a clarion call to fight against the Indian State. This has created a huge backlash, accusing him of treason. Now, these words—Nation, State, and Government—are often used very casually in everyday conversation. The present author is also not […]

Who is afraid of Babasaheb Ambedkar

Every storm runs out of rain eventually- Maya Angelou A storm has erupted across the streets of India following an invoking of the name of Babasaheb Ambedkar in a derogatory manner by the Home Minister. This happened when a discussion was going on in Rajya Sabha to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Indian Constitution. […]

Global Distribution of Wealth

A brief summary based on two datasets Ashok Nag Adam Smith began his magnum opus “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, with the following line:The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes. […]

Indian Official Statistical System- through a looking glass erroneously

“if you torture the data enough, nature will always confess” – Ronald Coase Introduction Recently a debate took place on the pages of Indian Express (starting on July 7 ,2023 edition) about the quality of survey-based data released by the National Sample Survey Organizations (NSSO). Before that, doubts about quality of Indian official statistics data […]

Viksit Bharat@2047- Utopia or Doable?

In 1963, at the “March of Washington”, Martin Luther King gave his famous “ I Have a Dream” speech in which he recalled the promise that architects of US constitution had made- “that all men—yes, black men as well as white men—would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. […]