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Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
Author: Ha-Joon Chang

Publisher: Penguin Books

Pages: 191

Price: Rs 999

In the middle of the 20th century, as most of the world’s colonised nations were gaining independence, economists were arguing about the best approach to development. India, enamoured by the growth in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, followed a mixed economy model, under which the state did the heavy lifting. The goal was to turn the country into an industrialised nation within 25 years—the remarkable feat USSR had achieved after the October Revolution in 1917. Different models of development emerged as two competing