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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Problem of State Capacity

I feel like an extremely centralized rule bound system that takes its rules to the logical conclusion of making the rule the purpose and breaking that requires you then to start thinking about the broader purpose of this pipe why was the pipe laid here in the first place. I don't have any empirical basis on which to answer but intuitively I feel like when you have only one discipline that is dominating a particular profession it brings the orthodoxies and dogmas of that discipline along with the advantages of that discipline so it's not able to ask what does well-being mean, he says. The state at the local level can genuinely represent the people that it works for according to CPR chief executive Ravi Agrawal

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