The Age of Stagnation, Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy is in Peril, by Satyajit Das, Tranquebar Press, 2015, Pages 346, February 2016 Review for Business World by Shankar Jaganathan, Founder & Chief Executive, CimplyFive Corporate Secretarial Services P Ltd, and by passion an economic historian and Author This is not a book for the one who wants to be reassured about the bright prospects of our global economy. Neither is it for the optimist who believes …
Author: Shankar Jaganathan
The Social Life of Money, by Nigel Dodd, Princeton University Press, 2014, Pages 394 Review for Business World by Shankar Jaganathan, Author & by passion an Economic Historian, March 2015 Like cricket in India, money is the subject of discussion in both professional and amateur groups across the world. These discussions often get heated, and their circles expand in the context of prominent headline hogging events. In these debates, we often see a visible and pronounced bias linked to origin. …
The Son Also Rises, Surnames and the history of Social Mobility, by Gregory Clark Princeton University Press, 2014, Pages 317 Review for Business World by Shankar Jaganathan, Author & by passion an Economic Historian, April 2014 Written by economic historian Gregory Clark, The Son Also Rises is a longitudinal study of social mobility. Studying multi-generational social mobility covering a span extending to seven hundred years across the geographies of Asia, Europe and America this book cannot be ignored by anyone …
Book Review 2023.01: Inside-Out Leadership by Rajiv Vij, Penguin Viking, 2021, 2023, 219 pages, Hard bound, ₹699 Gifted this book last Friday afternoon, I completed reading it in the next four days. It is a testimony to the quality of this book rather than my reading abilities, for flipping though it on the commute back home on the metro got me hooked to completing it in one go. Contrary to leadership books that are anectodical and biographic in nature, this …
Book Review 2023.02: Super-Infinite, The Transformation of John Donne, Faber, 2022, 297 pages, Paperback, ₹699 Picked up this book while browsing through the quaint bookshop Nagasri Book House in Jayanagar Shopping Complex, a treasure drove for book lovers interested in seeing the latest publications on a wide range of subjects spanning from the latest developments in brain research to social science and literature. What caught my eye in this biography of John Donne, the Ghalib of English love poems that …
Book Review 2023.03: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, 2020, 166 pages, Paperback, ₹499 This is another book picked up from Nagasri Book House in Jayanagar Shopping Complex, Bangalore, a treasure drove for book lovers. What caught my attention was the blurb on the back cover from the author that this is a book on neuroscience that people could read on the beach and warned the reader that their world could be turned upside down. The book is …
Book Review 2023.04: The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of the football’s super-rich owners, 2017, 316 pages, Paperback, ₹399 This book is the worthy winner of the 2018 Sports Book Award, Football Book of the Year. A must read for every lover of this captivating game who wishes football a glorious future for it to be enjoyed by not just the current and also the future generations. With no single hero or villain, it is a fascinating commentary of how …
Book Review 2023.05: Deeply Responsible Business, A Global History of Values-driven Leadership, 359 pages, Hardbound, 2023 Received this book a fortnight ago, a gift from a dear friend of mine, who I met just a few months back but was able to bond quickly due to our shared values. Browsing through the book on the way back home on the metro rail, it totally captured my attention, making me drop another interesting book I was reading to complete this book …
Book Review 2023.05: The Social Instinct, What Nature Can Teach Us About Working Together-Nichola Raihani, 254 pages, Paperback, 2021 In the month of April I purchased five books of which The Social Instinct was one. I happened to complete it today, on our 77th Independence Day. My basic belief that cooperation is part of nature’s intrinsic design prompted me to pick this book up and it certainly did not disappoint me. It went a long way in reinforcing my belief …
Book Review 2023.07: Life is Simple, How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Unlocked the Universe-Johnjoe McFadden, 341 pages, Paperback, 2021 Simplicity as a core value of CimplyFive, the company that I co-founded ten years ago, probably influenced me to pick up this book titled “Life is Simple”, a book that looks at the history of scientific discoveries through the lens of Occam’s Razor, that uses simplicity as a lens to view and validate a concept best described in one …
Book Review 2023.08: The Inner Game of Tennis, The ultimate guide to the mental side of peak performance by W Timothy Gallwey, 134 pages, Paperback, 2013 Picked up the book my son was reading and flipped through it thinking it would help me play better table tennis. The slimness of this book was another attraction as I thought I would complete it fast, within a week. To my pleasant surprise, I found this book to be much more than about …
Book Review 2024.01: Thierry Henry, Lonely at the Top, A Biography, Philippe Auclair, 336 pages, Paperback, 2012 The new year eve weekend was all it took for me to complete this mesmerizing unauthorized biography of my favorite football hero, Thierry Henry, the legendary Arsenal striker, who like me is a declared “Lifelong Arsenal fan”, besides being the catalyst who ignited my love for Arsenal, Premier League and football, in that order. Written by the French journalist Philippe Auclair, who matches …
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