Fault Lines
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How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy is an enlightening book that aims to draw your attention to the fault lines that are present in the world’s economy today. The author believes that these fault lines were responsible for the financial crisis that the world saw, in the year 2008. He also believes that the world could be in for some more severe financial situations, if the fault lines that are mentioned in this book are not attended to, immediately.The author mentions his belief that the financial meltdown experienced by the world has been due to these fault lines and not solely due to the choices made by individuals, such as government officials, bankers and homemakers. He believes that the decisions made by these people were made as a logical response to the fault lines in the world’s economy.In this book, the author chalks out a fixed course of action that the world’s economies must adopt, if they want to see things change for the better. He also chalks out a specific developmental plan for India as well. He stresses upon the fact that the country must act upon the advice that is given in this book, if change is to take place for the better, in the near future.
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Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2013 and 2016, and also served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements between 2015 and 2016. Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006.
Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. He co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales in 2003. He then wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times prize for best business book in 2010. His new book, The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State hold the Community Behind will be published in February 2019.
Dr. Rajan was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Group of Thirty. In 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year Award 2014 and The Banker magazine’s Global Central Banker of the Year award in 2016.
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| Author | Raghuram Rajan |
|---|---|
| Binding | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-9350291733 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 368 |
| Publication date | 1 January 2011 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins India |
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