Ankur Sarin is currently a faculty member of the Public Systems Group at IIM Ahmedabad and worked at Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, prior to that.
The belief that goals can be independent of the means to pursue them assumes an all-powerful state capacity. The reality is that all policies entail implementation costs, and those targeting the…
The 2019 Nobel laureates in Economics should use their new stature to call for a moratorium on experiments done on vulnerable populations since poor ethical standards often mark the design and…