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The Efficiency Paradox: are governments, from the US to India, focusing on the wrong thing?

The Efficiency Paradox: are governments, from the US to India, focusing on the wrong thing?

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On this week's episode of The Political Cycle, we're talking to Yamini Aiyar, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, about a recent Foreign Policy report she's co-authored on the question of efficiency. With Elon Musk's DOGE bringing the idea to a mainstream audience, do we need to better interrogate the motives behind this trend? Here, she talks to our Cyclist Rohan Venkat.


Read Yamini's piece here.


Here are the Trike Recommendations from this episode:


  • The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment by Swapna Kona Nayudu
  • Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka


Subscribe below to our contributors' Substacks:


  • ET Write Home by Emily Tamkin (via Emily's Substack you can also listen to an ad-free version of the show)
  • India Inside Out by Rohan Venkat
  • Dividing Lines by Tom Hamilton


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