#93 Democracy, Aap Too Much Ho!🎧

<em>Note: Sorry for the delay in the mid-week edition. Life intervened</em><br/><br/><em>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: </em><strong><em>how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?</em></strong><br/><br/><em>Welcome to the mid-week edition in which we write essays on a public policy theme. The usual public policy review comes out on weekends.</em><br/><br/><em>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 </em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ad-auris.com/"><em>Ad-Auris</em></a><em>. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.</em><br/><br/><em>- RSJ</em><br/><br/>Readers are sending in all sorts of questions. So, our <em>parampujya</em> guru of economic and political reasoning, <a target="_blank" href="https://publicpolicy.substack.com/p/39-dispelling-the-many-myths-of-our">Prof. Arthananda Ilyich Smith-Hayek (AISH)</a>, is back. Prof AISH is a home-grown economist without a single <em>videshi</em> bone or cartilage in him. He is a veritable <em>sangam</em> of three key economic streams – Neoclassical, Marxist and Austrian – whose advice can be safely consumed in these low trust times. <br/><br/>Over to the burning question.<br/><br/><em>Dear Prof,</em><br/><br/><em>The CEO of Niti Aayog yesterday complained we have </em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/fact-check-niti-aayog-ceo-denies-too-much-democracy-comment-video-shows-otherwise-139256"><em>too much democracy in India</em></a><em>. He later claimed he was misquoted. That, of course, dispelled any remaining doubt among us that he had indeed made that statement. All hell broke loose. Memes app