#106 Exit, Voice, Loyalty, And Mia Khalifa

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question:&#160;how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?<br/><br/>PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at&#160;<a href="https://www.ad-auris.com/">Ad-Auris</a>. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.<br/><br/>India Policy Watch #1: Rahne Do, Rihanna<br/><br/>Insights on burning policy issues in India<br/><br/>- RSJ<br/><br/>In one of the recent editions on GameStop, I wrote about the <a href="https://publicpolicy.substack.com/p/104-no-more-gamestop-puns">Gamma squeeze </a>and I was particularly pleased with myself. After all, there might not be many newsletters who over the last year could have shoehorned <a href="https://publicpolicy.substack.com/p/24-free-nothing">Dr Shreeram Lagoo</a>, <a href="https://publicpolicy.substack.com/p/76-yeh-strategic-strategic-kya-hai">Louise Gl&#252;ck </a>and Gamma squeeze into their editions. Maybe there&#8217;s someone up there who is keeping an eye out for me. Because this edition has Rihanna and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/miakhalifa/?hl=en">Mia Khalifa</a> (careful now) in it!<br/><br/>What a time to be alive and, importantly, to be writing on public policy!<br/><br/>The Farm Laws Backstory<br/><br/>We have written quite a bit on the <a href="https://publicpolicy.substack.com/p/70-concentrated-costs-diffused-benefits">new farm laws in the past few months</a>. I believe the laws are critical to transforming agriculture in India. Pranay agreed on the potential of the laws but questioned the timing and the lack of a narrative by the government to make them acceptable to all stakeholders. He felt this cou