Ideas that seemed antiquated for about half a century are ironically relevant to a post-covid world Mahatma Gandhi has not been taken very seriously as an economic thinker.

His forte was moral ideas. But, in a post-covid world, economic ideas must have an ethical quotient. The way the world economy is crumbling and inequities rising, we should give his ideas a second look.

We may find some answers to our current situation in his ideas, even if he arrived at those conclusions intuitively rather than through empirical observations.

Core Gandhian ideals include swadeshi, self-reliance at the individual and village community levels, an abhorrence of mass production and mindless industrialization, a dislike for the amoral extremes of capitalism

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