To reform India, you must reform the Indian state. Karthik Muralidharan joins Amit Varma in episode 375 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his much-awaited new book that has finally released -- and the chapters on it that deal with our bureaucracy.

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Also check out:
1. Karthik Muralidharan on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, UCSD and CEGIS.
2. Accelerating India's Development -- Karthik Muralidharan.
3. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
4. Understanding Indian Healthcare — Episode 225 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan).
5. Karthik Muralidharan Examines the Indian State -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen.
6. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah.
7. The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah).
8. Brave New World -- Vasant Dhar's podcast.
9. To Kill A Mockingbird -- Harper Lee.
10. Fixing the Knowledge Society -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything.
11. The Elusive Quest for Growth -- William R Easterly.
12. The White Man's Burden -- William R Easterly.
13. The Tyranny of Experts -- William R Easterly.
14. Thomas Sargent's speech at Berkeley.
15. Front-line Courts As State Capacity: Evidence From India -- Manaswini Rao.
16. The Argumentative Indian -- Amartya Sen.
17. BR Ambedkar's speech to the constituent assembly in 1949.
18. State Building -- Francis Fukuyama.
19. Why Freedom Matters -- Episode 10 of Everything is Everything.
20. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything.
21. When Should the State Act? -- Episode 26 of Everything is Everything.
22. Public Choice Theory Explains SO MUCH -- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything.
23. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan — Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen.
24. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything.
25. The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload -- Aditya Dasgupta and Devesh Kapur.
26. Red Tape -- Akhil Gupta.
27. Paper Tiger -- Nayanika Mathur.
28. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh — Shrayana Bhattacharya.
29. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).
30. The Life and Work of Ashwini Deshpande -- Episode 298 of The Seen and the Unseen.
31. Annie Hall -- Woody Allen.
32. The withering trend of public employment in India -- CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh.
33. The Colonial Constitution — Arghya Sengupta.
34. Arghya Sengupta and the Engine Room of Law — Episode 366 of The Seen and the Unseen.
35. Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending -- Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti.
36. Lagaan -- Ashutosh Gowariker.
37. List of Soviet and Russian leaders by height.
38. Bureaucratic Indecision and Risk Aversion in India -- Sneha P, Neha Sinha, Avanti Durani and Ayush Patel.
39. A Theory of Misgovernance -- Abhijit Banerjee.
40. Premature load bearing: Doing too much too soon -- Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock.
41. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen.
42. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen.
43. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Montek Singh Ahluwalia).
44. India’s Massive Pensions Crisis — Episode 347 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah & Renuka Sane).
45. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah).
46. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap -- Yuen Yuen Ang.
47. Pritika Hingorani Wants to Fix Our Cities -- Episode 361 of The Seen and the Unseen.
48. Gangaajal -- Prakash Jha.
49. Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India -- Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar.
50. Amitabh Bachchan on Twitter.
51. Nick Bloom at Stanford.
52. The Personnel Economics of the Developing State -- Frederico Finan, Benjamin Olken and Rohini Pande.
53. Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia -- Joppe de Ree, Karthik Muralidharan, Menno Pradhan and Halsey Rogers.
54. The Indian Labour Market through the Lens of Public Sector Recruitment -- Kunal Mangal.
55. Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India -- Craig Jeffrey.
56. Karmayogi Bharat.
57. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe.
58. India = Migration — Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe).
59. A new vision for legal education in India -- Abhishek Singhvi.
60. Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht — Episode 293 of The Seen and the Unseen.
61. Zindagi Toh Bewafa Hai -- Song from Muqaddar Ka Sikandar.

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Ep 375: Karthik Muralidharan and the Bureaucrat's Burden

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma