Shashank Shukla

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Surviving Capitalism: The Scarcity Advantage

02/18/2026 Mises Wire Shashank Shukla

The story of Anil Ambani destroys the belief that capitalism automatically favors the rich and excludes the poor. Once a billionaire, he made a series of bad business choices and the market punished those choices. Capitalism favors good choices.

Decentralize the Skies: A Swift Regional Model to Fix India’s Aviation Mess

01/09/2026 Mises Wire Shashank Shukla

The US is not the only country with a broken air traffic control system due to state control. India's system also is in a statist mess. The solution is to get government out of the business of ATC.

Mandate Without Majority: BJP’s Struggle for Policy Continuity in a Socialist-Leaning Coalition in India

06/07/2024 Power & Market Shashank Shukla

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has finally secured an electoral mandate on June 4, 2024. However, the stock market has not reacted favorably to this mandate because the BJP was unable...

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Surviving Capitalism: The Scarcity Advantage

02/18/2026 Shashank Shukla

Wealth, Wisdom, and Prosperity: The Ancient Capitalist Tradition of India

03/27/2024 Shashank Shukla

While modern India is known for adopting socialism in the 1940s, it has an older tradition of free markets. It is time to rediscover that tradition.

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