Hi, I'm Parth. 

Bookshelf: 

• Kay Redfield Jamison "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness"

• Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: "Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty" 

• Robert Gordon: "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" 

• M Nolan Gray: "Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It" 

• Amia Srinivasan, "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century"

• Richard D. White, "Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895" 

• Liu Cixin, "Three Body Problem" 

• Elena Ferrante, "My Brilliant Friend" 

• Sabyasachi Kar, "The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes"

• John Sidel and Jaime Faustino, "Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines"

• Jen Pahlka, "Recoding America" 

• Lant Pritchett, Eric Werker, and Kunal Sen, "Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes" 

  • And my review of it 

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Peasant Marey"

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Art, music, film:

• "Dear Alice' Decommodified Edition | Solarpunk anime ambience with no ads" and Andy Matuschaks reaction to it. 

  • There's value in having a positive vision of the future. It can provide a complementary, and potentially more sustainable, source of motivation for altruistic action. It can enable new forms of cooperation between individuals and groups. The process of creating a vision of the future can help us reveal our deepest areas of disagreement, and in turn work through them. 

• Vipul Rikhi: Ochintu Koi Mane Raste

  • There is so much beautiful modern Gujarati poetry and literature. 

• Taxonomy of musical traditions in Brazil. 

• Neha Basin, Lathe Di Chadar

Articles and papers: 

• Saumitra Jha: "Is There an Economic Solution to Ethnic Violence?"

  • "port towns were five times less prone to Hindu-Muslim riots between 1850 and 1950, and half as prone between 1950 and 1995.. in Gujarat, port cities were 25 percent less likely than similar towns to experience ethnic rioting in 2002."

  • "any city or town — whether at a port or not — is more likely to enjoy inter-ethnic tolerance as long as the ethnic groups are part of an economy in which their business activities complement and support one another."

• Sam Asheworth Hayes: "Crime Reduction" 

  • "In 2019 - the final year of pre-pandemic data - there were just over 1.2 million violent crimes reported to law enforcement agencies in the USA. This included 16,425 murders, nearly 140,000 rapes, 268,000 robberies, and 821,000 aggravated assaults."

  • "rape accounts for a huge share of the cost of crime - 56% in the 2021 dataset - and also one of the highest ‘per crime’ costs."

Micro-grants 

I run a small microgrants program to provide quick and flexible support for important work. Grants are up to $50k. You can apply for a grant here. If you don't have an idea, here is a list of problems I am excited for people to work on.