Op-Eds, Letters, Interviews, etc

Budget 2024 gives cosmetic solutions to unemployment—hollow shells where substance is needed (2024)

The Print. July 12.

Poverty estimates the new weapons in India’s statistics war. But confusion began decades ago (2024)

The Print. March 11.

Is India’s ‘growth story’ a sign of its strength or world’s weakness? China holds the answer (2024)

The Print. February 20.

Does Modi govt deserve credit for tax effort? It’s really nothing to crow about (2024)

The Print. February 4.

Interview: In Honor of Duncan Foley and Anwar Shaikh (2023)

The New School Economic Review: Volume 12, pp. 5–8.

Developing countries need a new economic model for global aid (2023)

Financial Times, January 11.

Response to “The New School’s Comments on “What Can the University Afford?” (2022)

Note, December 11.

The Crisis in the Universities (redux) (2022)

Blog post, December 6.

What Can the University Afford? (2022)

Note, November 23.

The low-cost, accessible approach to mass testing (2021)

Financial Times, June 10.

Scaling up vaccine production through ‘copying exactly’ (2021)

LSE COVID-19 Blog, June 25.

Hoarding Is Undermining a Key Effort to Vaccinate the Global Poor (2021)

Barron’s, January 29.

It’s Time to Use Eminent Domain on the Coronavirus Vaccines (2020)

Foreign Policy, December 29.

The World needs a People’s Vaccine (2020)

UNU-WIDER, November.

Coronavirus and the Limits of Economics (2020)

Foreign Policy, March 31.

The Economic Case for a People’s Vaccine (2020)

Boston Review, September 15.

Do we have the right balance?-Aggregate population health and COVID-19 (2020)

UN-WIDER, August.

The Crisis in the Universities: Is there an Alternative? The New School and Beyond (2020)

Blog post, July 5.

From Covid 19 to Shared Prosperity (2020)

with Michael Higgins, Pathfinders, June 3.

Lockdowns Are Costing Us. It’s Time to Be Smart (2020)

Barron’s, May 23.

How Epidemiological Models Fooled Us Into Trusting Bad Assumptions (2020)

Barron’s, April 29.

A policy road map to tackle COVID-19 (2020)

The Hindu, April 28.

Interview: The Covid-19 crisis in India, the US, and the World (2020)

English Text of Interview with Telugu newspaper Eenadu, April 21.

Covid-19: Dynamics of the Global Crisis (2020)

Blog post, April 15.

Lockdown or not? Covid-19 raises key questions on decision-making in a democracy, like India (2020)

The Print, March 31.

Low-wage South Asian workers in the U.S. hard hit by coronavirus business downturn (2020)

India Abroad, March 22.

Indians deserve a Budget that strikes at structural deficiency, not just tinkers at the edges (2020)

The Print, January 30.

Citizenship law shows tension between BJP’s Hindutva and Modi govt’s economic goal (2019)

The Print, December 20.

Economics’ Biggest Success Story Is a Cautionary Tale (2019)

Foreign Policy, October 22.

With cash transfers, both BJP and Congress are showing no imagination in fighting poverty (2019)

The Print, March 29.

All that is Wrong with Modi Govt’s Obsession with Ease of Doing Business Rankings (2018)

The Print, November 27.

Undermining Autonomy of RBI is the Opposite of Modi’s Promise of Good Governance (2018)

The Print, November 6.

UNDP Data on Poverty Show Gains are in Line with Modi’s Slogan, not a Product of it (2018)

The Print, October 26.

The Fall of the Rupee Shows India has been ‘Swimming Naked’ (2018)

The Print, September 15.

Warning Signs from Africa? (2018)

The New Internationalist, July 1.

Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’ (2016)

Blog post, November 23.

Is Modi’s move to scrap high-denomination notes more about politics than economics? (2016)

Scroll-In, November 8.

Does the World really need Development Goals? (2015)

with Ingrid Kvangraven, Financial Times, August 28.

Debate on Inflation Targeting is Live (2014)

Financial Times, January 27.

Economics Beyond the Economists (2013)

Economic and Political Weekly, August 17.

Labour Accounts for a Small Proportion of Overall Unit Cost (2013)

Financial Times, July 22.

Bias for Workers Would Foster Asia Trade (2012)

Financial Times, May 14.

Will Hollande go to Germany? (2012)

Triple Crisis, August 14.

Hamlet without the Prince: Politics and the Eurozone (2012)

Economic and Political Weekly, August 4, XLVII(31), p. 9.

Europe Shall not be Crucified on Euro’s Cross (2012)

The Hindu, July 16.

Underwriting the Poor (2012)

with Olivier De Schutter, Project Syndicate, June 6.

Developing Countries and the Crisis (2011)

New School Economic Review, Volume 4, pp. 82-86.

Central Question in Treasury Drama (2011)

Financial Times, August 20.

Bankers Pay: What Economics Has to Say (2010)

Triple Crisis, July 19.

The Greek Tragedy and the Political Roots of Fiscal Crisis (2010)

Triple Crisis, June 1.

Knowledge in Development: Fostering Knowledge Generation in the Global South (2010)

Triple Crisis, March 2.

Right to Food Act: Essential but Inadequate (2009)

with Rahul Lahoti, The Hindu. July 28.

The New Global Poverty Estimates: Digging Deeper into a Hole (2008)

UNDP International Poverty Centre, One Pager, Number 65, September.

Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable? (2008)

UNDP International Poverty Centre, One Pager, Number 52, May.

Counting the Poor in the Americas (2008)

Americas Quarterly, Spring.

Interview (2007)

in The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power, ed. Nermeen Shaikh. Columbia University Press.

Difficulty of Making Meaningful Estimates of Poverty (2007)

Financial Times, November 19.

Alternative Ways to Link Trade with Labour Standards (2007)

with Christian Barry, Financial Times, June 2.

False Dilemma of the Sweatshop (2006)

with Christian Barry, Financial Times, July 24.

Promoting Poor Countries; Interests in the International Trading System: A Proposal (2005)

with Christian Barry, Economic Times (India), December 8.

A Forceful Message, but Will it End Poverty? (2005)

with Antoine Heuty, The Hindu (India), April 22. Republished as “One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Learning from India’s Fight Against Poverty” in IAEA Bulletin 47/1, 2005, pp. 19-20.

Justice, Human Rights and Economic Institutions (2004)

Rights News, Volume 26, Issue I.

Economics and Inequality: Blindness and Insight (2004)

IAFFE (International Association for Feminist Economics), News Briefs, September.

What is Poverty? (2002)

with Howard Nye and Thomas Pogge, New York Review of Books, August 15.