11 best-selling economics books like UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours by Swati Narayan

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UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

By: Swati Narayan

4.05

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

About the book ‘Explores … the moral economy of our elite.’ — P. Sainath ‘A journey to truth.…

"The differences in the life chances of the rich and the poor, men and women, Brahmins and Doms and, for that matter, Keralites and Biharis, Hindus and Muslims across India are so sharp that, until these inequalities are bridged, it is impossible for the nation as a whole to prosper, let alone be a world leader."

-Swati Narayan, UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

If you liked the economics plot in UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours by Swati Narayan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.95

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more

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"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

2. Seeing Like a Feminist

By: None

3.50

Format: 24 pages, ebook

THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS For Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final trium… read more

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3. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • economics
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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4. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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5. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Whole Numbers and Half Truths

By: Rukmini S.

4.22

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more

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  • economics
  • india
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7. Sakina’s Kiss

By: Vivek Shanbhag

3.81

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more

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  • india
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8. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. 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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  • economics
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10. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future

By: Raghuram G. Rajan

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more

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  • economics
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11. Let's Talk Money

By: Monika Halan

4.44

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

We work hard to earn our money. But regardless of how much we earn, the money worry never goes away… read more

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  • economics
  • india
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12. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… read more

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  • economics
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13. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

By: Aravind Jayan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more

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  • india
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14. The Shortest History of Economics

By: Andrew Leigh

4.00

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Explore the human story of economics … 'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights… read more

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  • economics
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15. Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

By: M. Rajshekhar

4.33

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwa… read more

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  • economics
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16. City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh

By: Zeyad Masroor Khan

4.19

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of clicking a switch ne… read more

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17. Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance

By: Karthik Muralidharan

4.60

Format: 978 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventy-five years after Independence, India has much to be proud of. We are both the world’s bigge… read more

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  • economics
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18. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods

By: Sreenivasan Jain

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more

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19. Broken Promises: Caste, Crime and Politics in Bihar

By: Mrityunjay Sharma

4.30

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Broken Promises tells the story of Bihar's plunge into an abyss of crime, corruption and economic r… read more

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20. UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

By: Swati Narayan

4.05

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

About the book ‘Explores … the moral economy of our elite.’ — P. Sainath ‘A journey to truth.… read more

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  • economics
  • india
"The differences in the life chances of the rich and the poor, men and women, Brahmins and Doms and, for that matter, Keralites and Biharis, Hindus and Muslims across India are so sharp that, until th…"

-Swati Narayan, UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

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21. Marginlands : India's Last Natural Frontiers

By: Arati Kumar-Rao

4.48

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

'A tour de force' – Robert Macfarlane 'Some of the best environmental writing I have read' – Amitav… read more

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