V Kumaraswamy

'Behold the Leviathan' is a hopeful narrative of India's potential

Increasing women's workforce participation, the rise of a new class of elites without IIT-IIM education, and the JAM trinity are key socio-economic changes driving optimistic projections for India

'Law and the Economy in India' explores rationale behind key regulations

The depth of discussion on the economic linkages and laws are not examined in as much detail to justify the use of the noun "Economy" in the title

India@100: Ex-CEA Subramanian's book addresses India's future macro issues

Economic commentators, readers of business dailies or analysts at fund houses would find this book of long-term help

Reconciling 'development' dilemmas

Accelerating India's Development is about enhancing development and growth by improving public service delivery

Towards the age of Meta Reason

The Last Dance of Rationality contemplates the rise and fall of rationality, and lays down the contours of a successor regime anchored in consciousness, intuition, awareness and human feeling

Economics versus the law

Pradeep Mehta's book, critiquing six judgments impacting India's economy, is a call for introspection, highlighting the consequences of overstepping by courts and the problems with the PIL process

The Constitution: An imperfect charter

Colonial or otherwise, our Constitution requires more than just tinkering to align it with ground reality

The growth conundrums

Nikhil Gupta's book offers and insightful exploration of the potential of the Indian economy and the problems facing it

Bridging the HRD gap in reforms

Former IAS officer Sanjay Kaul's book sheds light on the crucial missing link in India's reform agenda and the challenge of achieving inclusive growth and gender equity

Political impulses in economic policies

'India in Search of Glory' is an unbiased account of the interplay between politics and economics in independent India. This voluminous book needs to be savoured like a fine wine

A conversation about economic reform

Gautam Chikarmane's book is a politically intrepid look at India's transformation from an economy 'of the small, by the small, for the small' to one 'of the big, by the big, for the big'

Economic unorthodoxies unleashed

Swapnil Pawar's book explores why the modern capitalist systems are grinding towards a halt

Why using CPI for REER calculation has been self-destructive for India

Given its stage and uncompetitive infrastructure, India's approach has been largely naïve or self-destructive

India should adopt differentiated inflation targeting

Many commentators have laid blame on tight inflation targeting for fall in our growth rates and persistent unemployment

Crisis and macroeconomic policy

The book is worth a read for all those interested in our economy - students or commentators of various tints - not least because most arguments are data-anchored but devoid of spite