Publications

Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize,1976) a must read!!

Memorandum by Milton Friedman to GOI, 1955 | PDF, 28 Kb | Copyright Notice – Only authorized publication on the internet.
Milton Friedman on the Nehru/Mahalanobis Plan| PDF, 10.5 Kb – Only authorized publication in print or internet
[Note on Milton Friedman: The Age of Friedman: America's most influential living economist since World War II was once isolated and ignored, NewsWeek, 15th June, 1998.]

(correspondence of 2001 with Milton Friedman – by Balbir Talwar)

Rahul Rana's Hindi translation of The Law by Bastiat

Sanjeev Sabhlok, IAS (1982-2001: resigned) Co-Founder, India Policy Institute

Only authorized publications on the internet.

Ajay Gandhi, Chartered Accountant. Hyderabad. Co-Founder India Policy Institute

Without This Everything Will Fail

Parth Shah, President, Center for Civil Society, Delhi, Member of the Board, India Policy Institute. a must read!!

Documents specially requested from authors/ publishers

Kaushik Basu, Professor, Cornell University. a must read!!

"Markets, Governments and Laws." [ Only authorized publication on the internet.] Originally published in Bimal Jalan's book, The Indian Economy: The Anatomy of a Crisis, Penguin,1992.
Other material of Prof. Basu, publicly available at other sites:

Friedrich A. Hayek (Nobel Prize,1974) a must read!!

"The Use of Knowledge in Society," published in the American Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, Sep., 1945. [PDF format]

High resolution: 1.36 Mb | Low resolution: 360 K

Copyright Notice: Published by permission of the American Economic Association, Nashville, dated the 19th of November, 1998, and PDF archive database, JSTOR, Ann Arbor. This for each reader's personal consumption. Please do not distribute copies without permission of AEA and JSTOR.

Deepak Lal, Professor, Economics, UCLA; (IFS, resigned) a must read!!

From Planning to Regulation: Toward a New Dirigisme? (linked to Cato journal)
Culture, Democracy and Development
Economic Reforms and Poverty Alleviation
Social Standards and Social Dumping

S.P. Aiyar, Ex-Professor, Bombay University

The Concept of Liberalism and its Relevance for India

N.C. Saxena, (IAS Retired) former Secretary, Planning Commission. How have the poor done? Mid-term Review of Ninth Plan Published in Economic and Political Weekly, Oct 7, 2000." (PDF, 48 Kb)

Policy reports from Independent Institute

The Madness of the Minimum Wage by Dr. Robert Higgs.
No more Central Banks by Kurt Schuler.
Capitalism Has Won The Battles, So Why Hasn't It Won The War? by Charles Oliver

List of books supplied by Liberty Fund to IPI

Documents in the Public Domain relevant for IPI policy discussions (scanned and published on the internet by IPI)

B.R. Shenoy, India’s great liberal dissenter to Nehru’s policies a must read!!

A Note Of Dissent On The Memorandum Of The Panel Of Economists (PDF, 46 Kb)
B. R. Shenoy: Stature and Impact, by Peter Bauer (PDF, 10 pgs., 34kb). Linked to Cato Journal (i.e., not a public domain paper).

N.N. Vohra, IAS: retired, the then Home Secretary, GOI

Vohra Committee Report (PDF, 37 Kb) . The criminalisation of Indian politics

Planning Commission, India. Design and Implementation of Programmes, a Chapter on anti-poverty programmes, 2000, by Planning Commssion (PDF, 91.5 Kb)

PAPERS/ ARTICLES/ NOTES sent in by participants and supporters of IPI (alphabetical by last name)

Indrajit Barua Architect, Guwahati a must read!!

Committee for Peoples' Empowerment (Prof. Bharat Shah, IIT, Bombay)

Memorandum of CPE to the parliamentary committee on electoral reforms

Prabhu Guptara, Professor, Switzerland.

Shahul Hameed, Rep. CII, Shanghai

Yazad Jal, Researcher, CCS

A New Freedom Movement

Babu Joseph, President, Liberal Group – Kerala New!

Kerala and Globalization. (PDF, about 800MB)

(Speech delivered by Dr. V. Ramachandran, Vice Chairman, Kerala State Planning Board at a meeting organised by Indian Liberal Group Kerala on 16th Dec. 2003 at Trivandrum for an young audience.

Madhu Kishwar, Editor, Manushi, Delhi

Parameswar Komaragiri

Political Corruption – How to Fight it (PDF, 16 Kb)

N. Arvind Kumar, Software engineer

Some common misconceptions about socialism

Barun Mitra, President, Liberty Institute, Delhi

Is there a population problem? published in the Economic Times, Tuesday the 24th of September, 1998.

S.V. Raju, Project for Economic Education, Bombay a must read!!.

The Requirements of Social Justice (PDF, 12 Kb)
Liberalism – A Contemporary View (Word format)
Making a Mockery of Indian Democracy | PDF, 12 Kb
Writ Petition in Bombay High Court | PDF, 30 Kb

Jagdiswara Rao, retd. Professor, Geology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati.

A status report on Higher Education in India

Smita Sabhlok, IAS

Child Labour in Bangladesh (PDF, 47 Kb)

K.S. Sastry, IAAS (retd. as Advisor to UN/IMF, Chairman, NationalHousing Bank, in rank of Addl. Secy. GOI

A Feasible Approach to Flat Tax Reform, by Kamhhampati S. Sastry and Jeffrey B. Nugent. This paper was presented in the Western Economic Association, California on June 29, 1998. PDF, 75 Kb.
The Missing Agenda, published in Hindu dated 29th March, 1998. Word format.

Nirvikar Singh, Professor, Economics, UC Santa Cruz a must read!!

Balbir Talwar