Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute speaks to the Open Magazine, on the appointment of Dr. Urjit Patel as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the challenges that lie ahead for him.
Dehejia commends the departure from traditional ad-ho...
Vivek Dehejia weighs in on Dani Rodrik's new book:
Dani Rodrik's "Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science" (Norton, 2015) is a fun and instructive little book on the use -- and mis-use -- of economic models by economists, policy makers, and polic...
Vivek Dehejia and Rajeev Dehejia wrote a letter to the Economist arguing for caution in using randomised control trails:
"Your recent leader (“In praise of human guinea pigs”, December 12th) argues strongly in favour of using randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in public...