Mihir S. Sharma
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Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
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2015
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What The Economy Needs Now
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The Big Bang That Wasn't: Budget 2015 and India's destiny
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2015
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Demonetisation: The Economists Speak
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“The name ‘JSW’, you will note, is not particularly imaginative. Nor is it the kind of thing you would imagine is incredible intellectual property. Yet, in 2014, JSW Steel told shareholders that it would pay Rs 125 crore a year to a firm entirely owned by Sajjan Jindal’s wife, Sangita. In return, Sangita Jindal would graciously permit her husband to use the ‘JSW’ acronym, which JSW Steel insists her company, JSW Investments, owns.”
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
“At some point, economists must study the Business Family Wedding Gift Economy. It is an extraordinary, closed bubble. What happens is this: a woman marries into a conservative Indian business family. She may well be energetic and bright, but there’s no place for her at work, nor can she work elsewhere. So, instead, she’s urged to ‘take up something’. Scented candles, usually. Sometimes kurta design. Or necklaces, or faux-Rajasthani coffee tables. She then becomes a ‘success’, because every other woman in the family buys her candles as wedding presents, at hideously inflated prices. In return, she buys their kurtas as wedding presents. Eventually, everyone is buying everyone else’s hideous creations at hideously high prices, and nobody can ever tell anyone else their stuff sucks, and that nobody really likes the smell of lavender anyway. The most amazing thing is, this is not a very different economy from the one their husbands are in.”
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
“Somehow, India needs to make Indians think Rocket Singh is more likely than Guru.”
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
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