#93 Democracy, Aap Too Much Ho!🎧

Note: Sorry for the delay in the mid-week edition. Life intervened<br/><br/>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/>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.<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/>- RSJ<br/><br/>Readers are sending in all sorts of questions. So, our&#160;parampujya&#160;guru of economic and political reasoning, <a 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&#160;videshi&#160;bone or cartilage in him. He is a veritable&#160;sangam&#160;of three key economic streams &#8211; Neoclassical, Marxist and Austrian &#8211; whose advice can be safely consumed in these low trust times. <br/><br/>Over to the burning question.<br/><br/>Dear Prof,<br/><br/>The CEO of Niti Aayog yesterday complained we have <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/fact-check-niti-aayog-ceo-denies-too-much-democracy-comment-video-shows-otherwise-139256">too much democracy in India</a>. 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 appeared, Immanuel Kant was quoted, and Twitter had a field day with the usual leftist malcontents suggesting fascism is nigh. I don&#8217;t under