Per Pupil Expenditure in UP Govt Schools

By Professor Geeta Kingdon (UCL Institute of Education, University College London) and Professor Mohd Muzammil (Professor of Economics and Vice Chancellor, Agra University)

The Libertarian Case for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

By Sheldon Richman

I tried to come up with a solid libertarian argument for why the Supreme Court should not have struck down state bans on same-sex marriage (SSM). (By a 5–4 vote, the court this morning…

Ease of Doing Business? Don’t Bank on it.

By Jyotsna Narang

I was much excited when Modi came in power with the motto of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’. The pathetic state of public sector banks, schools and hospitals, the corruption, red-tapism and the babu…

Being Street-Smart: On our Streets and in our Laws

As a UK national largely unfamiliar with India, prior to my arrival in the country four weeks ago I had no idea of the extent to which the government encroached into the lives of ordinary citizens. I was shocked to learn that one must be 25…

#ThrowbackThursday: M R Pai — Can the German Economic Miracle be Replicated in India? (1970)

The following piece was first published in the August 1970 issue of Freedom First. In the piece, M R Pai talks about the German economic miracle guided by Dr Ludwig Erhard…

#ThrowbackThursday: M R Masani — Will Liberalism Survive Socialism? (1966)

This piece was first published in a publication titled ‘Is Socialism Outdated?’ published by the ‘Forum of Free Enterprise.’ What is posted here is a small excerpt from the essay that was first…

#ThrowbackThursday: M R Masani — Prices are like Water (1976)

In this week’s selection for #ThrowbackThursday, we have a piece by Minoo Masani, first published in Freedom First in 1976. In this piece, he talks about the dangers of inflation — tracing it fundamentally to the flawed…

#ThrowbackThursday: M R Masani — Monopolies: State or Private? (1970)

This piece is based on a speech given in the Parliament by M R Masani, who was an MP at the time. It was published in the February 1970 issue of ‘Freedom First.’ In the piece, Masani talks about the problems…

Can Public Goods be Provided without the State?

“If I had money, I would build roads; if I had more money, I would build more roads; if I had even more money, I would build even more roads”

— Sauvik Chakraverti