Shruti Rajagopalan
@srajagopalan
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Economist @Mercatus Center @GeorgeMasonU. Fellow @nyulaw. Emergent Ventures India. Host @ideasofindia Podcast. Constitutional Economics & Public Choice. Dogs.
Joined February 2010
When I started competing, I had a small dream - to one day compete alongside the able-bodied and win medals ♥️ I didn’t make it at first, but I kept going, learning from every setback. Now, that dream is one step closer. 🌟 In the Asia Cup trials, I secured Rank 3 and will now
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What makes a good Thiel Fellow according to @DStrachman: 1. Hyperfluency: they have super-developed thoughts and interesting ideas in their field, and they can explain it back-to-front and front-to-back. 2. Dog-on-a-leash energy: restless drive that needs the leash cut, not
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Only four undefeated teams left after Week 10! Caleb and Josh Downs dive into this trending topic in college football and whether Ohio or Indiana will claim the best in their conference on the newest episode of Downs 2 Business. Episode out now! Sponsored by @google
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In the fifth episode of the 2025 job market series @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I spoke with Karthik Narayan @asknarayan , a doctoral candidate @NuffieldCollege @OxfordEconDept. We spoke about the effects of scheduled versus unscheduled monetary policy announcements in India, and much
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Full audio + Transcript here
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SHRUTI RAJAGOPALAN: Welcome to Ideas of India, a podcast where we examine academic ideas that can
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In the fifth episode of the 2025 job market series @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I spoke with Karthik Narayan @asknarayan , a doctoral candidate @NuffieldCollege @OxfordEconDept. We spoke about the effects of scheduled versus unscheduled monetary policy announcements in India, and much
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Why do all good things come together in some jobs but not others? In part three of their series on favorite models, @ATabarrok and @tylercowen explore compensating differentials and selective incentives. The idea of compensating differentials goes all the way back to Adam
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Reminder: our first anniversary edition of The Big Shift goes out to subscribers tomorrow. Subscribe (for free) at
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Insights, charts and data to create shared knowledge and expand our understanding of India
🧵Yesterday I sent out the 50th edition of The Big Shift, @dataforin's weekly newsletter on long-term transformation in India. It's a real joy to be able to build on my excellent team's work, and to zoom out and really see the big picture - good, bad, and mostly in between.
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I'm making a database of every 2025-2026 econ PhD job market candidate: https://t.co/uCCWVtsnEJ - 18 institutions and 307 candidates so far - Filter by institution/field/advisor - CVs, JMPs, links to candidate site Will be adding every finance/econ candidate over coming weeks!
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In GKOI Arenas are immersive battlegrounds where players fight, earn & evolve. Each Arena is a new stage on your path to become the Dragon — a test of skill, power & strategy where legends rise & prizes await. ⛩️ Mint your GKOI Battlecards Nov 25 on OpenSea to join the Legend!
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Supported by Emergent Ventures...
The most impressive deep tech company I've helped this year is hiring world-class founding scientists: * Smart biologists * Mouse & cell research scientists * Chemistry: synthesis & analytics * Clinical Ops lead * Anyone who is a fast-learning problem-solver!!! If that's you,
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Congratulations to the incredible women in blue. Here is a photo from the early days of Indian women's cricket -- the Mumbai team led by Neeta Telang, circa 1973. My sister Mukta is standing third from the left.
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I'll be writing a new series of articles on hindrances to and opportunities for economic growth in Kerala. You can expect regular articles starting from January 2026. Subscription 🔗 is in the image and at the end of the thread. But before that, why Kerala?
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Stumbled across the incredible work by @srajagopalan with 1991 Project - celebrating 30 years of the 1991 reforms. It's an incredible repository of documents from that time along with videos and discussions. Very cool. https://t.co/vJJ4N4FQ8h
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.@livemint article makes 3 points: - A Pune company already has the processing plant to make 20-25% of India's NdPr alloy demand - Costs 15-20% higher than China - a price floor purchase commitment can help - For magnets, a ₹7500 PLI to start commercial production on the cards
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If you argue for closing down nuclear plants, not modernizing old ones and not building new ones, you cannot be serious about climate change. Nice paper in SEJ by Luke Petach showing why I am this harsh!
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India beat South Africa in a tense finale to become the #𝐂𝐖𝐂𝟐𝟓 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 🏆🇮🇳 #INDvSA 📝: https://t.co/6Vok7HLZsk
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Totally agree that solving the air pollution problem in northern India is a litmus test of several aspects of India's governance: federalism, international relations, agriculture, and above all, democracy. Image: 'A Sixth of Humanity' by Devesh Kapur and @arvindsubraman
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PM Carney's apology was strategic, of course, and the Ontario ad a needless provocative, but the ad was still correct on Reagan's views on trade
Ontario's ad was right, @D_A_Irwin writes: Reagan wouldn't approve of Trump’s trade policies, especially re: allies. He also said in 1985 “one of the first victims of a protectionist trade war will be America’s farmers, who have it tough enough already.” https://t.co/AJ6ztNkiUH
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It’s a spooky time of year for recovering globalists. Thanks for the inspiration @USTradeRep @RealPNavarro . Disclaimer: This costume was made in India and tariffed accordingly.
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The award-winning documentary that Sen. Adam Schiff demanded to have removed from Amazon Prime shows how metabolic and other natural cancer treatments work. "We're not giving cancer an opportunity to detour . . . to escape down one of its usual [biochemical] pathways."
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Costumes from eras past, ideas for the world ahead. Happy Halloween from Mercatus! 🎃📚
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So happy to see this first cohort of @RussellSageFdn grants (in partnership with @Arnold_Ventures), to early-career scholars conducting causal research related to crime/CJ policy. Congrats to all!
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