Former IMF Economist on India’s Middle-Class Trap: Jobs, Taxes, AI & the Next 15 Years | FWS

Download 1% Club App Now! https://app.onepc.io/?c=fws-yt-sriram In this episode of The 1% Club Show, recorded in New York City, Sharan Hegde sits down with economist and bestselling author Sriram Balasubramanian for a long-form conversation on one question: how does India actually go from a developing economy to a genuine superpower? Sriram is a former IMF economist based in Washington, D.C., who has previously worked as an economist with a few international organisations. He is an alumnus of Columbia University and the author of Kautilyanomics: For Modern Times and Dharmanomics: An Indigenous and Sustainable Economic Model, both published by Bloomsbury India. His work sits at the intersection of global macroeconomics, economic history and emerging market development, and he has written for Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and VoxEU as an independent columnist. The conversation begins in the past and works forward. Sriram explains how ancient Indian temples functio