Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracle - Hardcover

Ruchir Sharma

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9781846145568: Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracle

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ISBN 10: 1846145562 ISBN 13: 9781846145568

Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2012

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BREAKOUT NATIONS

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About the Author:

Ruchir Sharma is head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley, a position which lends him a truly global perspective and first-hand experience of the world he is describing, as well as affording him unique access to top CEOs, key finance ministers and heads of state. He is an occasional television commentator, on CNBC and in India, and a regular columnist for Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and the Economic Times of India.

Review:

In lucid prose Sharma overturns conventional wisdom, highlights new trends, and discovers new sources of growth. This is the most interesting book on the new economic landscape that I have read in years. -- Fareed Zakaria A fascinating gallop through the countries at the edges of the developed world. Not only does he challenge the accepted wisdom - that China and India will motor on, ad infinitum - but he comes up with some surprising candidates for the next decade's economic stars. Sunday Times This is a great road-map to the new and better-balanced world in which we will all live, and an encouraging one. Independent This is a book of fascinating analyses which argues that the growth nations of the future will emerge from the margins of the world economy. It will tell you the price of a cocktail in Rio and bases one fruitful line of argument on the cost of a bedroom in the Four Seasons hotel chain around the world. The Scotsman Breakout Nations works best as a compilation of highly illuminating country vignettes - similar, say, to Michael Lewis' Boomerang (2011) - rather than an overarching analysis. But this is hardly an affront. As with Mr. Lewis' work on the European crisis, for sheer readability and insight on the various parts of the ongoing developing world drama, [...] you won't find a better choice... Jon Anderson, Wall Street Journal

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