Amogh Arakali

@amogharakali@scholar.social
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Intersections of Economy, Environment, and Urbanisation with a focus on Industrial Regions. Grew up and currently working in Bengaluru, India.

I typically write in long threads (of 20-25 toots) rather than individual toots.

Websiteamogharakali.work
Show threadAmogh ArakaliFeb 6, 2023

Meanwhile, I had a lot of fun writing this post.

I was a topic I'm interested in, I had two solid books to read and refer to, there was lots of new learning, and most importantly, I had the time to go at my own pace.

If nothing else, it was immensely joyful.

Show threadAmogh ArakaliFeb 6, 2023

Speaking of AI, I was curious to see if ChatGPT could write something similar.

It did, but the results weren't too great. I feel I'm safe for the next 2 weeks.

However, I'm proud to say I broke ChatGPT the first time I tried to make it compete with me. I'm ahead. For now.

Show threadAmogh ArakaliFeb 6, 2023

While writing this post, I also experimented with AI for illustrations.

The results were...interesting. They certainly make the post more entertaining. But I could feel limits.

Maybe I'll write about this another time.

Meanwhile, you can see my attempts for yourself.

Show threadAmogh ArakaliFeb 6, 2023

Links to the two books in question
(If possible, please borrow from libraries or buy from local bookstores):

Planning Democracy by Nikhil Menon:
https://penguin.co.in/book/planning-democracy/

Making It Count by Arunabh Ghosh (@guo_xuguang@twitter.com):

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179476/making-it-count

Amogh ArakaliFeb 6, 2023

I wrote a long, academic (ish) #blogpost again. 20 min read.

I read Nikhil Menon's 'Planning Democracy' and Arunabh Ghosh's 'Making it Count' together, to examine parallels between the two books.

Menon's book looks at India's Five-Year Planning Process in the 1950s, while Ghosh looks at attempts to national build statistical systems in the People's Republic of China around the same time.

Read on Medium: https://amogharakali.medium.com/numbers-and-plans-ea80c36394f4

Read on Substack:
https://amogh.substack.com/p/numbers-and-plans

#India #China

Numbers and Plans - Amogh Arakali - Medium

— — — — — — — #FromMyLongReadings is a new extension of my #FromMyReadings blog series. Here, I’ll write longer posts (3500 words or more) about books and research papers I’ve been reading…

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Amogh ArakaliJan 12, 2023
StataTeX Blog Jan 11, 2023

RT @florianederer
This is the first time I've ever seen a formal retraction in economics.

Kudos to the authors for being so intellectually honest!
https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article/doi/10.1093/restud/rdac085/6982752

Retraction of: Growing up in a Recession

This is a retraction of: Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo, Growing up in a Recession, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 81, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages 7

OUP Academic
Amogh ArakaliDec 28, 2022
Owen OzierDec 27, 2022
Saddened to hear of the passing of Martin Ravallion. His work measuring global poverty influenced my thinking about economics in 2001, years before I started grad school. A decade later, he hired me after my Ph.D. to join the research group at the World Bank, of which he was then Director. It was humbling to sit with him at conferences, where he would always leave me with a quip that kept me thinking. I never stopped learning from him. Gone too soon. @Ggenicot @eeshani_kandpal #econtwitter
Amogh ArakaliDec 27, 2022
Christian Zimmermann Dec 26, 2022

Looking for economists to follow on Mastodon? RePEc has suggestions for you

https://ideas.repec.org/i/emastodon.html

#dailyRePEc :repec::

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Amogh ArakaliDec 22, 2022
Victor SeowDec 22, 2022

Mark your calendars! 🗓

I am pleased to share the spring 2023 lineup of the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series!

Founded in 2018 through the generous sponsorship of the Harvard University Asia Center, this series features some of the most exciting work in the history and social studies of science, technology, medicine, and the environment in East, South, and Southeast Asia.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia

Talks are virtual, free, and open to all.

#histodons #histstm #envhist #envhum #sts

Science and Technology in Asia

The Science and Technology in Asia seminar series features talks on critical historical and contemporary issues in science, technology, medicine, and the environment in East, South, and Southeast Asia. It showcases some of the most exciting recent work in the humanities and social sciences that interrogates the place of the scientific and the technological in Asia and the place of Asia in our ideas and practices of science and technology.

Amogh ArakaliDec 22, 2022
Trade Talks Podcast Dec 21, 2022

EPISODE 171. What makes a supply chain resilient

Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (University of Texas) joins to explain some new research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns, which sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why. She also describes the surprising result that more complex buyer-supplier relationships managed to stay together despite the massive shock

https://tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/171-what-makes-a-supply-chain-resilient/

171. What makes a supply chain resilient

New research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why.

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