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Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar is a research fellow with a special focus on India and Asia at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His research interests include economic change in developing countries, human rights and civil strife, political economy, energy, trade and industry. He is a prolific columnist and TV commentator in India, well-known for a popular weekly column titled "Swaminomics" in the Times of India. He is the author of Escape From The Benevolent Zookeepers - The Best Of Swaminomics (New Delhi: Times of India, 2008) and has been called “India’s leading economic journalist” by Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution. He has been the editor of India's two biggest financial dailies, The Economic Times and Financial Express, and was also the India correspondent of The Economist for two decades. He has frequently been a consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Swami spends part of the year in India and part in the USA. He holds a Master's degree in economics from Oxford University, UK.
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Books and Book Chapters
"A Titan Passes Away," in Peter Bauer and the Economics of Prosperity, James Dorn and Barun Mitra, editors (Cato Institute and Liberty Institute, 2009).
"Introduction," Escape from the Benevolent Zookeepers (2008)
Cato Studies
"Socialism Kills: The Human Cost of Delayed Economic Reform in India," Development Briefing Paper no. 4, October 21, 2009.
"An International Monetary Fund Currency to Rival the Dollar? Why Special Drawing Rights Can't Play That Role," Development Policy Analysis no. 10, July 7, 2009.
"The Benefits of Port Liberalization: A Case Study from India," Development Policy Analysis no. 7, December 3, 2008.
Articles and Newsletters
Small States: Not Handicapped and Under-Aided, but Advantaged and Over-Aided, The Cato Journal , Vol. 28 No. 3 Fall 2008
Opinion and Commentary
"Delayed Economic Reform Killed 14.5 Million Children," Economic Times (India), November 15, 2009
"Bhutan's Happiness Is Large Dam, Fast GDP," Times of India, November 1, 2009
"Twenty Years Later: Why the Berlin Wall Fell," Times of India, October 25, 2009
"Coming Triumph of the Taliban and Pakistan?," Economic Times (India), September 20, 2009
"The Broken Windshield Fallacy," Wall Street Journal Europe, August 19, 2009
Events
"The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability," November 19, 2009 [Conference]
"India: The Emerging Giant," July 2, 2008 [Book Forum]
"India Unbound: A Personal Account of a Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age," April 22, 2002 [Book Forum]
Multimedia
"Rehash for Clunkers" featuring Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, August 31, 2009 [Flash Audio, 05:41]
"SDRs as a New Reserve Currency" featuring Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, April 22, 2009 [Flash Audio, 06:16]
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