The Economist Outside the Granary and the Court
B.R. Ambedkar produced some of the most original economic analyses in twentieth-century India, on land, labour, monetary policy, and fiscal federalism. Post-independence India's planning apparatus, upper-caste and technocratic, ensured his framework never reached the institutions that shaped development policy. On his birth anniversary, which this year falls on Baisakhi, the harvest festival, a century of data has made the case he never got to argue in the rooms that mattered.
