ViewPoint 1: Do Corporations Have Social Responsibility?

A compilation of articles by Milton Friedman and Alexei M Marcoux challenging the conventional view on corporate social responsibility.

Author / Edited by:
Parth J Shah

ViewPoint 2: Population Causes Prosperity

A paper offering a radical view on how population causes prosperity.

Author / Edited by:
Sauvik Chakraverti

ViewPoint 3: The Indian Financial Sector after a Decade of Reforms

Study outlining the agenda for financial sector reforms in India.

Author / Edited by:
Jayanth R Varma

ViewPoint 4: Peter Bauer: A True Friend of the World's Poor

A heartfelt article paying tribute to the man who did more for the world's poor than any Nobel Laureate in economics.

Author / Edited by:
Sauvik Chakraverti

ViewPoint 5: New Public Management: Escape from Babudom

A book outlining the origins and principles of New Public Management (NPM), and how it has revolutionalised delivery of public services.

Author / Edited by:
Ninan Abraham

ViewPoint 6: College Autonomy-Policy, Practice and Prospects

A study on the benefits of providing full autonomy to colleges-in matters of curriculum, examination and evaluation, finances, as well as management of teaching and non-teaching staff.

Author / Edited by:
Ninan Abraham

ViewPoint 7: Aarthik Swatantrata- Ek Vismrit Manavdhikar

A booklet highlighting the importance of the role economic and livelihood have in eradicating poverty in cities and villages in India.

Author / Edited by:
Parth J Shah, Sanjay Kumar Sah

ViewPoint 9: Skill Vouchers - Global Experiences and Lessons for India

A study of how skill vouchers can catalyse demand for quality skill development services, examining Indian and global experiences with skill vouchers.

Author / Edited by:
Leah Verghese and Parth J Shah

ViewPoint 14: Denationalisation of Banking in India

This paper is an attempt to demonstrate both the obvious and implicit costs to the economy, of India’s government-owned banking model. Using research findings of other scholars, the paper also demonstrates that the so-called social or national objectives have not been achieved even after more than 40 years of India’s experiment with the nationalisation of the sector, despite the huge amount of money paid by Indian taxpayers all this time. The paper concludes by calling for an immediate denationalisation of Public Sector Banks in India (PSBs).

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Liberty & Society Series 7: Social Change & Public Policy

What is public policy? A public policy is basically a law or rule that is enforced by any level of government, whether central, state, or local. Our activist judiciary also makes public policy: that all public transport in Delhi must run on CNG, for example, was a Supreme Court decree.

Author / Edited by:
Parth J Shaha

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