Mausam Kumar
@mausamiitb
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Postdoc at Princeton. Mostly industrial policy, development finance, green transition.
Bombay/Boston/Princeton
Joined December 2013
Delighted to have this out in @phenomenalworld where we bring out the drivers of institutional coordination in Tamil Nadu's industrial transformation and argue for coherent sub-national imaginations of industrial policy in federal democratic settings.
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How India’s southernmost state transformed into a global manufacturing hub
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Today, let me introduce you to the GOAT Japanese institutional economist you probably never heard of. Masahiko Aoki. I have learnt a great deal from his body of work. This paper of his on an economic model of the Japanese firm reads like poetry.
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Very kind of @pbmehta to mention my work on capture of DFI finance by large business houses in 1950s/60s. Seems timely to share an abstract for a paper I have been working on that studies the implications of the managing agency system on India's post-colonial industrialization.
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RT @CASIPenn: Very pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Khemka Distinguished Lecture - "Domesticating" Climate Change: The Intertwining of Cli….
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This winter school is organised by some of the coolest people I know. If you are eligible, please apply. Application deadline: 14th September.
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Interesting take on drivers of Chinese Underconsumption.
New op-ed out in The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC : 'China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible: Beijing’s prioritization of political security necessitates a reliance on investment and exports – not consumption – to power the economy.' .
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RT @vox_dev: Vietnam’s Special Economic Zones are not just attracting investment—they are creating better, more formal jobs, with women in….
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RT @SFC_India: .@NavrozDubash, with fellow Co-Editors-in-Chief W. Pieter Pauw and @YacobMulugetta, writes in a new @Climate_Policy editoria….
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Today I learned, Pranab Bardhan has a substack. Can't recommend enough!! .
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RT @dataforin: More than one-third of India's manufacturing sector workers today–or 23 million–are women. While the overall share of manufa….
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RT @JustinSandefur: Why are Apple and other companies choosing Tamil Nadu?. An interesting comparison of TN's recent industrial strategy to….
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Someone asked me if RCTs and pilots have utility for industrial policy. This was my response.
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RT @dmuthuk: A very detailed analysis on how Tamil Nadu became the most advanced state in high value manufacturing and how it is becoming a….
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RT @IndustrlPolicy: "Coordinating Tamil Nadu. How India’s southernmost state transformed into a global manufacturing hub". in-depth analy….
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RT @kyleichan: The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is an impressive case study in industrial policy at the subnational level:.- 1/7 manufacturin….
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RT @arvindsubraman: Devesh Kapur & I are pleased that, after 4-5 years of researching & writing & decades of reflection, our @HarperCollins….
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RT @kyleichan: I had also written earlier about this convergence in multiple tech-industrial ecosystems in China
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EVs, batteries, lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI. China's progress across a range of overlapping industries creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop.
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Super interesting paper from @MLundLarsen on state financing approaches to green industrial policies in India.
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RT @KevinPGallagher: Was fun to sit down at @INETeconomics to discuss the need to reform the international financial architecture.
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