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Prashanth Perumal

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The real problem with India’s land market lies in its extremely restrictive nature, particularly with the case of land ceiling laws. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/ Mint

The flawed economics of land grab

3 min read . 23 Mar 2015

Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint (Ramesh Pathania/Mint )

Book Review | The Indian Constitution and Social Revolution

3 min read . 12 Mar 2015

AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s 2012 book Swaraj spells out his detailed plan for the country that primarily revolves around the ability of local administrative units to be more responsive to the choices of local people. Photo: Mint

Delhi’s own Hugo Chavez

3 min read . 16 Feb 2015

The unpredictability of health troubles that can serve as a financial shock to poor patients is another argument against free market healthcare. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

India needs free market healthcare

3 min read . 10 Feb 2015

If education must reach the poor, the only way forward is to remove all regulatory barriers to the setting up of private schools and granting them operational freedom. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

The poor are voting with their feet for private schools

3 min read . 19 Jan 2015

Huge public ownership in the banking system has led to the predominance of perverse incentives that have rendered the system broke. Photo: Mint

Public sector banks cannot be fixed

3 min read . 12 Jan 2015

Anti-conversion laws constraining individual religious freedom may make for good politics but—as with cooked-up legislation in general—it will deliver more controversy than results. Photo: HT

Religious conversion is a two-way street

3 min read . 31 Dec 2014

Supporters of GST are convinced of its merits merely because of existing trade barriers between states. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

A single market is not a free market

3 min read . 22 Dec 2014

A file photo of finance minister Arun Jaitley. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

GST: scrap the bad idea

3 min read . 15 Dec 2014

Individuals in a free market will possess not only absolute right over their property, but also the freedom to exchange their produce without barriers imposed by the state. Photo: iStock

Reforms that really matter

3 min read . 08 Dec 2014

The single most important aspect of a market economy is absolute respect for property rights. Photo: HT

Land acquisition or land grab?

2 min read . 01 Dec 2014

Banning child labour that saves millions of children from much worse living conditions without offering better living standards will simply turn out to be a double whammy. Photo: HT

Save the children, legalize child labour

3 min read . 24 Nov 2014

Gordon Tullock. Photo: Joshua Paquin/Wikimedia Commons

Gordon Tullock: An economist who understood politics

2 min read . 10 Nov 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Reuters

PSUs: Modi should do a Thatcher

3 min read . 21 Oct 2014

Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Book Review | Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

3 min read . 09 Oct 2014

Despite Narendra Modi’s stress on manufacturing, the fact remains that there is no hard-and-fast rule on the ideal size of any sector for growth to be considered “balanced”. Photo: AFP

The Make in India bubble

5 min read . 25 Sep 2014

According to the OECD, G20 countries have come together to establish “coherence of corporate income taxation at the international level”. This is another way of saying that governments will now cooperate rather than compete in their tax policies. Photo: Reuters

G20 crackdown on tax havens is bad for economic growth

3 min read . 22 Sep 2014

The country’s pathetic record in developing its energy market is in direct contrast to the amazing success of the shale gas industry in the US. Photo: Bloomberg

Gas pricing: What India can learn from the shale revolution

3 min read . 19 Sep 2014

Genuine freedom of choice includes the right of individuals to discriminate between choices, and not simply the freedom to choose between limited options the liberals deem fit for social use. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

The liberal moral police

5 min read . 15 Sep 2014

State-owned power distribution companies are constituted to perform the task of power distribution, while public power utilities are tasked with generating power. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

How to create a power crisis

3 min read . 04 Sep 2014

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