Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center where she leads the programs Indian Political Economy Research and the Emergent Ventures India. Shruti joins David on Macro Musings to discuss the past, present and future of the Indian economy. Specifically, Shruti and David discuss India's mid-20th century experiment with socialism, subsequent reforms from 1980 through the 2000s, and how further reforms to manufacturing and to land and labor markets can accelerate its economic development.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Shruti's Twitter: @srajagopalan

Shruti's Mercatus profile: https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/shruti-rajagopalan

Shruti's podcast, *Ideas of India*: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/tag/ideas-of-india-podcast/https://www.mercatus.org/tags/ideas-india

Related Links:

*India Grows at Night* by Gurcharan Das

https://www.amazon.com/India-Grows-At-Night-Liberal/dp/0670084700

*In India, Don't Hate the Matchmaker* by Shruti Rajagopalan

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-02/netflix-s-indian-matchmaking-is-only-too-accurate

*It's Chiefly Rent Seekers Who Oppose Our Farm Reforms* by Shruti Rajagopalan

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/it-s-chiefly-rent-seekers-who-oppose-our-farm-reforms-11601304066126.html

David's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

David's blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/