Read the article hereBook by PM's economic advisor wins awardIndo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, October 30, 2010
Carrying a cash award of 30,000 pounds, the award was given at a function in New York Wednesday. This year's judges include Lionel Barber, Liaquat Ahamed, Helen Alexander, Lynda Gratton, Mario Monti, Jorma Ollila and Shriti Vadera.
The book looks at the hard choices that will prevent another recession like the one in 2008, following the financial collapse of 2007.
While there are broad similarities in the things that go wrong in every financial crisis, this was a crisis centred on what many would agree is the most sophisticated financial system in the world.Rajan was the economic counsellor and director of research (chief economist) at the International Monetary Fund from September 2003 until January 2007.
Currently the Eric J. Gleacher distinguished service professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, Rajan was appointed economic advisor to the Indian prime minister in 2008.
He has co-authored a book titled, "Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists"
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Goldman Sachs as Literary Arbiters??
Would you buy a book about the causes of the financial crisis that is recommended by Lloyd Blankfein? But what else could one expect from a CEO that has no notion about personal or corporate integrity, who lives to enjoy the next ginormous paycheck. It would seem that a person's preference for reading an in-depth book about the financial meltdown would be one that was predicated on making Blankfein grow purple with anger, not one based on the following endorsement of the book and the author, Raghuram Rajan: “His analysis of what went wrong, and what needs to be done to address the structural flaws that caused the financial crisis, should be essential reading for policy makers and practitioners alike,” says Blankfein. What irony! What chutzpah!
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