In Indianomix: Making Sense of Modern India (Random House India, December 2012) Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya focus the lens of popular social-science on the confusing mass that is India. Using the methods and tools of economics, as well as borrowing from fields as varied as psychology, anthropology, political science, sociology, and religious studies, Indianomix examines a wide range of historical and contemporary questions to provide a unique, fresh insight into the country.
In the process, Dehejia and Subramanya find answers to entangled questions and discover new angles to old mysteries. Written with sharp, insightful and humorous prose, Indianomix reveals how life’s everyday situations – even something as simple as trying to flag down a taxi – can be better explained when you analyse them with an economic outlook. It isn’t about figuring out where the stock market is heading, what the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy should be or providing a dissertation on the need for economic reforms. Instead it is about debunking myths and calling into question bits of conventional wisdom about India – and showing that when you dig down into the deeper mechanisms hidden below all the confusing patterns in the country, India makes sense after all.
Monday, January 14, 2013 in Department of Economics, Faculty Publications, News
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