"This book charts the emergence of India onto the global economic stage. In the 1990s, Indian policymakers, politicians, and private sector actors were wary of the global world. By 2015 trade constituted half of India's GDP and India had become an integral part of the world order. Indian...

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...