Skanda Amarnath is the Executive Director of Employ America, a think tank focused on the labor market and economic policy. He has degrees in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Columbia, and graduated in 2022 with a JD from Columbia Law School. He tweets here.

April 11, 2024

Analysis

The Electric Vehicle Developmental State

BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy

The rise of the Chinese EV industry has been enabled not only by generous government subsidies but also by profound changes in strategy and organization, and in particular by a distinctive revival of vertical integration—at both individual firm and national…

June 17, 2023

Interviews

Varieties of Derisking

Industrial policy, macrofinance, and the green transition

, Melanie Brusseler, Daniela Gabor, Chirag Lala, JW Mason

In recent years, the debate over climate policy has moved away from the earlier consensus in favor of carbon pricing and towards an investment-focused approach, illustrated by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), along with other similar measures…

October 13, 2022

Interviews

The Geopolitics of Stuff

A discussion on supply chains, commodities, and climate

, Tim Sahay, Thea Riofrancos, Skanda Amarnath, Joe Weisenthal

The material economy is back. Economists and commentators in recent decades had heralded (or lamented) the arrival of an automated, redundant, frictionless system of international commerce. But over the past two years, multiple global crises have exposed the fragile physical…