Rohit Lamba and Raghuram G. Rajan for PS Book Recommendations

Your weekly reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. The PS Book Recommendations newsletter. [View this message in a web browser.]( [PS Book Recommendations]( Welcome to PS Book Recommendations, your weekly source of reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. This week's edition features the University of Chicago's Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba of New York University Abu Dhabi and Cornell University. [Cover: Breaking the Mold by By Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba]( From Princeton University Press [Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity]( By Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba Breaking the Mold describes the new path for economic development that India must create. “A must-read for anyone keen to understand a nation that will play a big part in all our economic futures.”—Tej Parikh, Financial Times “A vision that amounts to an entirely new model of development for India.”—The Economist Raghuram G. Rajan Recommends... [Half-Lion: How Narasimha Rao Transformed India]( By Vinay Sitapati Rajan says: "P.V. Narasimha Rao, the prime minister who liberalized the Indian economy, gets very little credit for his achievements. This book sets the record straight. A fine read on how to carry out reforms in India." Rohit Lamba Recommends... [Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India]( By Nikhil Menon Lamba says: "India has long had an unusually good system for collecting and analyzing large-scale survey data, especially for a country that was poor for much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The system’s foundations were laid by a man known as P.C. Mahalanobis, who enjoyed the confidence of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. In this book, Menon traces their joint obsession with a Soviet-styled planned economy and describes how India went about trying to modernize itself through the unusual marriage of planning and democracy." [The Stranger]( By Albert Camus Lamba says: "I recently returned to this book, called L'Étranger in the original French. Perhaps Camus’ most famous novel, it explores the meaning of life, as it exists inwardly and in the beliefs and reactions of others. The result is a deeply existential, thought-provoking book about human morality." Don't miss our recent Say More interview with Rajan and Lamba, on Indian job creation, industrial policy, democracy, and more. [Read now]( [PS. Save 30% on a new Digital subscription with our special introductory offer.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter does not entitle the recipient to re-publish any of the content it contains. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.