{"product_id":"economics-for-every-indian","title":"Economics for Every Indian","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1958 B.R. Shenoy wrote the only dissenting note against India's Second Five-Year Plan. He was one economist against a consensus, and he was right. We keep his mug on the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is that argument seventy years later, made cheerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAkash Kumar and Kumar Anand open with questions rather than definitions. Virat Kohli earns four times what Rohit Sharma does — how is that justified if Kohli is not four times better? Congo, Nigeria and Venezuela sit on some of the world's largest reserves of oil, diamonds and cobalt, and are among the poorest countries on earth. Why does the government of India run hotels and sell condoms while five crore cases rot in the courts?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZero jargon and almost no graphs. Every example is Indian, which is the point — a reader in Patna should not have to learn about the American corn subsidy to understand price floors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKumar grew up in Motihari, spent a school year in the United States on a State Department programme and came back unable to stop asking why some places stay poor while others get rich. He studied at IIT Madras and ran academic programmes for Students For Liberty across South Asia. He also, by his own account, spends his spare hours hunting for a good cup of specialty coffee, which is how he ended up on this particular shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHachette India, 2026. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Economics-Every-Indian-Quick-Concise\/dp\/9357313400\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuy it on Amazon India\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e — it is published there and priced in rupees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Amazon India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43825144791107,"sku":"Economics-for-Every-Indian-7840559759427","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/4737\/5683\/files\/61JtVJPqPdL._SY522.jpg?v=1789246277","url":"https:\/\/cafe.tollbooth-dpyc.com\/products\/economics-for-every-indian","provider":"Good Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}