A short list, grouped from easiest to most demanding. Start wherever you are.
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Accessible ways into the episode's themes.
Everything is Everything (podcast)
BeginnerAmit Varma and Ajay Shah
The guest's own long-running conversations on economics, history and ideas.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
BeginnerJon Gertner
The story of one of the research labs Ajay draws on, and how its culture produced so many breakthroughs.
From the guest
Ajay Shah's own writing.
In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
IntermediateVijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah
How to think about building a state that works, and the reforms India needs.
Go deeper
History and context.
1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
IntermediateSanjaya Baru
An account of the year India's economy changed direction.