Category: Pranav Mittal

• Saffron Demagoguery: How the Four-Year Undergraduate Program is a Prodigal Lie

  13–19 minutes

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  April 19, 2023

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  Features, Pranav Mittal, World

  India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi reintroduced the Four-Year Undergraduate Program in 2020 under the New Education Policy, even though it was previously rescinded in 2014 on grounds of privatizing India’s public higher education system…

  

• Economics’s Fool’s Gold: A Critical Evaluation of the Randomista Revolution

  8–12 minutes

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  February 6, 2023

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  Economic Theory, Features, Pranav Mittal

  The Randomista movement radically transformed how economic research is broached and public welfare policies are conceived through the incorporation of randomized control trials.

  

• Shifting to the Left: The Return of Lula as Brazil’s President

  6–9 minutes

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  November 25, 2022

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  Pranav Mittal, World

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected for his third term as president over Jair Bolsonaro, a change signifying a drastically different policy regime for Brazil as compared to Bolsonaro’s deleterious free-market model of governance.