{"id":71514,"date":"2019-10-01T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=71514"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T11:27:14","slug":"in-raghuram-rajans-appraisal-a-dig-at-ruling-partys-troll-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/in-raghuram-rajans-appraisal-a-dig-at-ruling-partys-troll-army\/","title":{"rendered":"In Raghuram Rajan\u2019s appraisal, a dig at \u2018ruling party\u2019s troll army\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suppressing criticism is a \u201csure fire recipe\u201d for policy mistakes, cautioned former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan in a hard-hitting blog arguing that people in authority should tolerate criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf every critic gets a phone call from a government functionary asking them to back off, or gets targeted by the ruling party\u2019s troll army, many will tone down their criticism. The government will then live in a pleasant make-believe environment, until the harsh truth can no longer be denied,\u201d Rajan said while recalling the achievements of noted jurist and doyen of liberalism in India Nani Palkhivala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUndoubtedly, some of the criticism, including in the press, is ill-informed, motivated, and descends into ad-hominem personal attacks. I have certainly had my share of those in past jobs. However, suppressing criticism is a sure fire recipe for policy mistakes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajan, who is currently a professor of finance at University of Chicago, said constant criticism allows period course correction to policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajan\u2019s observations come in the backdrop of the Modi government removing Rathin Roy and Shamika Ravi from the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister as they were critical of the government\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppressing criticism is a \u201csure fire recipe\u201d for policy mistakes, cautioned former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan in a hard-hitting blog arguing that people in authority should tolerate criticism. \u201cIf every critic gets a phone call from a government functionary asking them to back off, or gets targeted by the ruling party\u2019s troll army, many will [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71516,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514\/revisions\/71516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}