{"id":38492,"date":"2020-05-05T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=38492"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:57","slug":"professor-vivek-dehejia-speaks-to-the-wall-street-journal-on-indias-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2020\/professor-vivek-dehejia-speaks-to-the-wall-street-journal-on-indias-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Vivek Dehejia speaks to the Wall Street Journal on India&#8217;s lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Vivek Dehejia speaks to the Wall Street Journal on India&#8217;s lockdown\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/people\/dehejia-vivek-h\/\">Professor Vivek Dehejia<\/a>&nbsp;speaks to the Wall Street Journal on India&#8217;s lockdown amid COVID-19:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Governments around the world are reclaiming the commanding heights of the economy,\u201d said Vivek Dehejia, an economics professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. \u201cYou can do things quickly, but the danger is once governments obtain more power they are very reluctant to give it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amid-coronavirus-lockdown-india-post-still-deliversbecause-nobody-else-can-11588528535?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1\">here<\/a> to visit the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Vivek Dehejia&nbsp;speaks to the Wall Street Journal on India&#8217;s lockdown amid COVID-19: &#8220;Governments around the world are reclaiming the commanding heights of the economy,\u201d said Vivek Dehejia, an economics professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. \u201cYou can do things quickly, but the danger is once governments obtain more power they are very reluctant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[276,62,61,183],"class_list":["post-38492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-india","tag-vivek-dehejia","tag-wall-street-journal"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38521,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions\/38521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}