Research

Inframarginal Externalities: Covid-19, vaccines and universal mandates,” (with Brian C. Albrecht) Public Choice, 2023, Volume 195: 55–72.

Mises’s Dynamics of Interventionism: Lessons from Indian Agriculture,” Southern Economic Journal, 2023, 89(3): 657-79. 

The equity-complexity tradeoff in tax policy: lessons from the Goods and Services Tax in India,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 2022;39(1):139-187.

Interest groups repairing unconstitutionality: India’s Ninth Schedule,” The Journal of Legal Studies, 2021,50(S2): S151-S178.

The 1991 Reforms and the Quest for Economic Freedom in India,” Capitalism and Society, 2021, 15(1)(7): 1-26.

Inclusive Rationality: Struggle and Aspiration,” Review of Behavioral Economics, 2021, 8(3-4): 259-283.

Simple Rules for the Developing World,” (with Alex Tabarrok), European Journal of Law and Economics, 2021, 52: 341-362.

Battling Covid with Dysfunctional Federalism,” (with Abishek Choutagunta and GP Manish), Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87(4): 1267-1299. 

Demonetization in India: Superfluous Discovery and Money Laundering,” Review of Austrian Economics, 2020, 33(1):201-217.

Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State,” (with Alex Tabarrok), The Independent Review, 2019, 24(2): 165-186.

The State of Indian Cities,” Cosmos + Taxis, 2017 4(2+3):87-102.

Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Systems: Error and Valuation, Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, 2017, 12(S1): 1-9.

Magna Carta Revisited: Parchment, Guns, and Constitutional Order,” International Review of Law and Economics, 2016, 47(S): 53-59. 

Liberalism in India” (with G.P.Manish, Daniel Sutter, Lawrence H. White), Econ Journal Watch, 2015, 12(3): 432-59. 

Incompatible institutions: socialism versus constitutionalism in India,” Constitutional Political Economy, 2015, 26 (3): 328-355.

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Paternalism and Filicide” Journal of Indian Law and Society, 2014, 5 (Monsoon): 201-224.

Constitutional Craftsmanship and the Rule of Law” (with Richard E. Wagner), Constitutional Political Economy, 2013, 24(4): 295-309.

Legal Entrepreneurship within a system of Entangled Political Economy” (with Richard E. Wagner), American Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2013, 6(1): 24-36.

The rise and fall of the polluter-pays principle in developing countries” (with Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi), International Review of Law and Economics, 2012, 32(1): 135-144.

The rationality of taking to the hills” (with Virgil H. Storr), Review of Austrian Economics 2012, 25(1): 53-62.

Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant: A Review of the Right to Information Act, 2005Delhi Law Review, 2005-2006 (II): 46-72.

Book Chapters

How India can use its numbers,” India’s Marathon:Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order,” Pranay Kotasthane, Anirudh Kanisetti and Nitin Pai (eds.), Takshashila Institution, Bangalore, 2020. 

Ideas and Origins of the Planning Commission of India,” Planning in the 20th century and beyond. India, the Planning Commission and the Niti Aayog, Sylvie Guichard and Santosh Mehrotra (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Buchanan and blockchain: Code as Constitutions,” James M. Buchanan: A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy, Richard E. Wagner (ed). Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Austrian Perspectives in Law and Economics” (with Mario J. Rizzo), Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics, Francesco Parisi (ed). Oxford University Press, 2017.

“The Bankruptcy Judge as a Central Planner” (with Todd Zywicki), Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics, Todd Zywicki and Peter Boettke (eds.) Edward Elgar, 2017.

Constitutional Change: An Economic Analysis,” Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2016. 

Lessons from Gurgaon: India’s Private City” (with Alexander T. Tabarrok), Private Urban Planning: Opportunities and Limitations, David Anderson and Stefano Moroni (eds) Edward Elgar, 2015. 

Policy Papers

“Assessing Healthcare Capacity in India,” (with Abishek Choutagunta), Covid-19 Response Mercatus Working Paper 2020.  

Pandemic Policy in Developing Countries: Recommendations for India,” (with Alex Tabarrok), Covid-19 Response Mercatus Policy Briefs 2020.  

Book Reviews

Review of “When Crime Pays: money and muscle in Indian politics,” by Milan Vaishnav, Public Choice, 2019.

Review of “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics,” by Richard H. Thaler, Review of Austrian Economics, 2017.  

Review of “Madman, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers” by Wayne Leighton and Edward Lopez, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015

Review of  Jagadish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries Library of Law and Liberty, December 2013. 

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