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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization and how revitalising community can save liberal market democracy.Raghuram Rajan, author of the 2010 FT & Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an unparalleled vantage point onto the social and economic consequences of globalization and their ultimate effect on politics and society.In The Third Pillar he offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how three key forces the economy, society, and the state interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane.The third pillar' of the title is society. Economists all too often understand their field as the relationship between the market and government, and leave social issues for other people. That''s not just myopic, Ra
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‘Insightful and impressive … As local governments get to work, they could certainly use the help of more thinkers of Mr. Rajan’s calibre.’ Wall Street Journal
‘Skilfully unpicks the tensions between capitalism, democracy and community … An important and timely new book’ Financial Times
‘An important contribution to understanding why, a decade after the crisis, the world’s politics and economics remain so brittle’ Times
‘Rajan’s account of corporate misbehavior is very well told’ Project Syndicate
‘Fresh, insightful and engaging. Offers a brilliant reckoning with one of today’s most important and potentially crippling challenges … [His] clear and compelling case goes well beyond protecting the vulnerable. It’s also, critically, about enhancing the whole’ Mohamed El-Erian, author of When Markets Collide and The Only Game in Town
‘A strikingly insightful analysis of the penalties of neglecting the critically important role of community, by concentrating too much on the perceived efficacy of the markets and the state. Rajan brings out loudly and clearly why this imbalance needs urgent correction’ Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences
‘My parents lived through the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, and World War II. I thought I was brought up in a world organized in a fundamentally different way. I was wrong. We all need to start thinking about this issue right now and this book is a place to begin’ James A. Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fail
