The importance of being unpalatable

Deepak Lal doesn’t need an introduction, certainly not to readers of Business Standard. Though he is now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, I still tend to associate him with Oxford/London. There are sometimes problems with semantics, but I suspect he will describe himself as a classical liberal. In this era, when classical liberalism is under retreat – not just in the rest of the world, but in India too – all his causes are bound to be lost ones, at least in the short term. 

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