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Chetana Sabnis on The Intimacy Contract and the Indian State
Sabnis and Rajagopalan discuss how Indian courts navigate extramarital relationships, polygamy, and the contested boundaries between legal marriage and social recognition in Hindu law

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Favorite Models: Spence on Monopolies, Harberger on Incidence, Solow on Growth
Why the Best Models Endure Even When They’re Wrong

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Raphael Bostic on Life as a Regional Fed President, the Responsibilities of a Dual Mandate, and the Results of the 2025 Framework Review
What does birding have to do with central banking?

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Chandran Kukathas on Capitalism, Human Nature, and the Meaning of Life
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Jon Hartley on the Legacy of John Taylor and his New Measure of R-Star
Is John Taylor the most influential macroeconomist of the last 50 years?

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Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood
Rai and Rajagopalan explore the cross-cultural analysis of shame and pride in film

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In Praise of Commercial Culture
Revisiting Tyler’s 1998 book: what it got right, what’s changed, and whether markets still make art better

- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
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Marc Giannoni on the Fed’s Framework Review, it’s Independence, and the Future of R-Star
When it’s staring us in the face, do we know what good monetary policy looks like?

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Michael Clemens on the Trillion-Dollar Question of Immigration
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Samim Ghamami on the Treasury Markets Impact on the Future Path of Interest Rates and Inflation
What are the long-term impacts of the One Big, Beautiful Bill?

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Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets
Srivastava and Rajagopalan discuss large-scale experiments on how strategic referral allocation improves worker retention, team productivity, and inclusion while challenging traditional hiring practices in Indian manufacturing

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Jerry Dwyer on the History of Free Banking and the Future of Bitcoin
What was it like having Milton Friedman as your dissertation chair?

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Chandran Kukathas on "Dialogues on Immigration and the Open Society"
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Hester Peirce on the role of the SEC, Financial Surveillance, and Crypto
What does putting peanut butter on your watermelon have to do with financial surveillance?

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Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India’s Impossible Man
Basu and Rajagopalan discuss K.M. Panikkar, who shaped modern India's unity, foreign policy, and constitutional vision

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Robin Brooks on the Dollar, Fiscal Dominance, and Geoeconomics
Will the US or China strike each other’s Achilles’ heel first?

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Timothy J. Dunn on Migrant Deaths and the Human Cost of Border Militarization
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Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on the Role Central Banker Relationships Play in Economic Crises
What does history tell us about why India was denied a currency swap line?

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Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India
Aiyar and Rajagopalan discuss Delhi's school reforms, the agency-accountability tradeoff, and building state capacity from the ground up

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