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Ep 312: Ashutosh Salil and the Challenge of Change

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There a Rent Seeking Mentality in Government?

A common criticism about any kind of big government anywhere could be that power corrupts. Jagdish Bhagavati once made an observation, I think around 2000, that in China people have a profit seeking mentality while in India they have a rent seeking mentality. And obviously these interactions can work both ways, so I'm not saying that sub-cultures, structures, kigalthi, hai, but the structures are the way they are.

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