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CAPITALIST DYSTOPIA

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WHAT WENT WRONG WITH CAPITALISM

By Ruchir Sharma

ALLEN LANE

384 pages; ₹999

Ruchir Sharma is by no means a Marxist priest. For a quarter century, he helped Morgan Stanley devise capitalist investment strategies; then he became a capitalist, and founded an investment advisory firm of his own. He sat comfortably in New York, the capital of American capitalism, and presumably prospered. But he came to the uncomfortable

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