ETHICSPUBLIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR SCIENCE
The Honesty Problem in "Tax Sport to Fund Science"
The debate resurfaced after an academic from a leading Indian research institute proposed taxing the IPL to generate roughly ₹15 billion for scientific research, prompting a rebuttal in The Hindu from an IISc Senior Research Fellow, who argued the proposal ignores economic multiplier effects and misdiagnoses India's real problem as bureaucratic misallocation rather than absolute funding scarcity.
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