Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
By: Jagdish N. Bhagwati
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawha…
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1. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
By: Raghuram G. Rajan
4.11
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hi… read more
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"Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management."-Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
"Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then."-Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
"And more than the quality of its institutions, what distinguishes a developed country from a developing one is the degree of consensus in its politics, and thus its ability to take actions to secure …"-Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
"The picture of bankers slavering after bonuses soon after they had been rescued by government bailouts was not only outrageous but also pitiable - pitiable because they were clamoring for their prima…"-Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
2. English, August: An Indian Story
By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more
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"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
3. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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4. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
5. Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
By: Audrey Truschke
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu… read more
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6. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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7. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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8. The Worldly Philosophers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more
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9. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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10. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
By: Sendhil Mullainathan , Eldar Shafir
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our… read more
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11. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
By: Amartya Sen , Jean Drèze
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dreze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winne… read more
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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more
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14. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
By: Shrayana Bhattacharya
4.29
Format: 384 pages, None
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
15. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar’s Villages
By: M.R. Sharan
4.28
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Sanjay Sahni was living an ‘araam zindagi’ in Delhi, working as an electrician, until a chance enco… read more
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16. Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity
By: Claudia Goldin
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey t… read more
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17. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
By: Michael J. Mauboussin
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Most investment books try to assess the attractiveness of a stock price by estimating the value of … read more
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18. Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
By: Jagdish N. Bhagwati
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawha… read more
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19. What The Economy Needs Now
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
3.77
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Indias economy is under threat with rising unemployment, banks in crisis, falling GDP and farmers u… read more
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20. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
By: Vijay Kelkar
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and … read more
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21. Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Intervention That Made a Difference
By: Vikram Singh Mehta
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
All too often, the focus of conversation in India is on our failure as a socio-economic polity. We … read more
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