I’ve always been frustrated with the economics crowd,” says investor and author Ruchir Sharma from his family home in Delhi, where he’s been grounded since March. “Their advice isn’t particularly practical.” We’re chatting over Zoom on the eve of the release of The 10 Rules Of Successful Nations, an update to his 2016 bestseller The Rise And Fall Of Nations – a runaway hit that has won him global accolades for its clarity and prescience, including a GQ Men of the Year Award.
Sharma is chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, and shot to fame with his first book Breakout Nations, published in 2012. His latest is aimed at entrepreneurs, technocrats, corporate leaders and investors – providing a framework of rules that help predict which countries will rise and those whose prospects are deteriorating. Sharma writes in a breezy, elegant tone and presents his case – which includes some fairly nuanced, arcane concepts – in a format that is easily palatable, with a clear opinion on who he thinks will be winners and losers, eschewing the pedantic, fence-sitting phraseology favoured by many professional economists. “It was important that the information in the book be easily convertible into practical advice,” says Sharma, passionately thumping the table.
What are your predictions over the next 12 months for developed and emerging economies?
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