Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarthy https://b-hemanth.in/essays.html Essays on AI, economics and public institutions. en Avoiding a Microeconomics of AI https://b-hemanth.in/essays/avoiding-a-microeconomics-of-ai.html A new, weakly held take on the economics of AI agents and swarms. https://b-hemanth.in/essays/avoiding-a-microeconomics-of-ai.html Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Suit: Building a Verifier for Law https://jhana.ai/blog/suit-verification/ Law reads like prose but behaves like a quasi-formal semantic logic. Notes on what Lean-style verification could mean for documents that assert rather than prove: an ontology supplies the missing structure, and generation becomes generate-verify-select. jhana-suit-verification-2026 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Suit: Graphs, Vision, and the End of the “Friday Afternoon Filing” https://jhana.ai/blog/suit-graphs-vision-filing/ The “Friday afternoon filing” is timed so that nobody scrutinizes it. Notes on registry scrutiny as a graph problem: vision over the paper record, procedural rules as checkable predicates, and what a court with memory of its own record would look like. jhana-suit-graphs-vision-filing-2026 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Beyond Stare Decisis: An AI Preparedness Framework for the Judiciary https://forum.nls.ac.in/nlsir-online-blog/beyond-stare-decisis-an-ai-preparedness-framework-for-the-judiciary-i/ An ontology of judicial AI—decision-support, access, and administration—and a preparedness framework for courts, in the National Law School of India Review. nlsir-beyond-stare-decisis-2025 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Uncovering the China Story(ies): Notes on Federalist Literature https://b-hemanth.in/essays/uncovering-the-china-story.html Notes on federalist literature, decentralization and China’s reduction in poverty from 1980 to 2015. 10f6b256d4f20639d648353f2873d6a3 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Dalal Street vs. North Block: The gap between the real economy and the markets https://b-hemanth.in/essays/dalal-street-vs-north-block.html On the gap between Indian stock markets and the real economy, written in October 2020. 2c433d2590b671ef5ee113e6403eeb35 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Who Should Borrow? The fiscal federalism debate https://b-hemanth.in/essays/who-should-borrow.html An October 2020 discussion of RBI purchases of state government bonds and the fiscal federalism debate. 9c7330005cc2d714bb23a59edd163b45 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Inspecting Indian Education Inspectors: Six changes to make https://b-hemanth.in/essays/inspecting-education-inspectors.html Six proposed changes to school inspection in India, examining education spending, incentives and accountability. 79a968313e4901217ed23a2451947627 Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 A functional beginner's guide to Git and RMarkdown: Guest Lecture at Stella Maris College, Chennai https://b-hemanth.in/essays/introduction-to-github-and-r-markdown.html Notes from a March 2019 guest lecture at Stella Maris College, Chennai: an introduction to GitHub, R and R Markdown. ffe2e88581a52b679b1dbee2b9a434bc Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000