Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
Ruchir Sharma
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Description
To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. After years of rapid growth, the most celebrated emerging markets--Brazil, Russia, India, and China--are about to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? In his best-selling book, writer and investor Ruchir Sharma identifies which countries are most likely to leap ahead and why, drawing insights from time spent on the ground and detailed demographic, political, and economic analysis.With a new chapter on America's future economic prospects, Breakout Nations offers a captivating picture of the shifting balance of global economic power among emerging nations and the West.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
April 08, 2013
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 0.9 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393345407
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About the Author
Ruchir Sharma is chairman of Rockefeller International and founder and chief investment officer of Breakout Capital, an investment firm focused on emerging markets. He moved to Rockefeller in 2022 after a twenty-five-year career at Morgan Stanley, where he was head of emerging markets and chief global strategist. Based in New York, he is a contributing editor at the Financial Times and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of four books, the international bestseller Breakout Nations, the New York Times bestseller The Rise and Fall of Nations, Democracy on the Road, and The 10 Rules of Successful Nations.
Reviews
The head of Morgan Stanley 's emerging markets division conducts a brisk worldwide tour in search of new markets ready for takeoff. No first-book jitters for Sharma, longtime columnist for the likes of Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. His smooth, almost chummy style suits him ideally for guiding civilians through the sometimes-arcane thicket of the dismal science, looking for those emerging markets likely to disappoint or exceed expectations in the coming years... Confining his predictions to the near future, Sharma refreshingly comes across as that rare thing Harry Truman once sought: a 'one-handed economist' willing to stake his reputation without resort to on the other hand equivocation. For investors looking to place their bets and for general readers looking to understand the global economic landscape in the wake of the Great Recession.
Accessible to newbies and revelatory for veterans, Sharma's observations upend conventional wisdom regarding what it takes to succeed in the relentlessly competitive global marketplace.
[A] country-by-country tour de force of what makes emerging markets tick. He is an excellent writer with a keen eye for detail and a lyrical prose sense... As with Michael Lewis Boomerang on the European crisis, for sheer readability and insight on the various parts of the ongoing emerging drama I daresay you won t find a better choice. --Jon Anderson
Mr. Sharma 's intent is to help you find the best places around the world to invest, emphasizing that it will take some work on your part.
This week 's Book of the Week is, Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma, one of the world 's leading emerging market investors. This is the best book on global economic trends I ve read in a while. --Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS
... it 's refreshing to read Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma 's book on the Bric countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and the rest of the developing world... [H]is book offers a careful view that has little truck with forecasts of the relentless Bric-led rise of the emerging world.
The head of Morgan Stanley s emerging markets division conducts a brisk worldwide tour in search of new markets ready for takeoff. No first-book jitters for Sharma, longtime columnist for the likes of Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. His smooth, almost chummy style suits him ideally for guiding civilians through the sometimes-arcane thicket of the dismal science, looking for those emerging markets likely to disappoint or exceed expectations in the coming years... Confining his predictions to the near future, Sharma refreshingly comes across as that rare thing Harry Truman once sought: a 'one-handed economist' willing to stake his reputation without resort to on the other hand equivocation. For investors looking to place their bets and for general readers looking to understand the global economic landscape in the wake of the Great Recession.
This week s Book of the Week is, Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma, one of the world s leading emerging market investors. This is the best book on global economic trends I ve read in a while. --Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS
Breakout Nations works best as a compilation of highly illuminating country vignettes--similar, say, to Michael Lewis' Boomerang... As with Mr. Lewis' work on the European crisis, for sheer readability and insight on the various parts of the ongoing developing world drama, I dare say you won't find a better choice. --Jonathan Anderson
Mr. Sharma's intent is to help you find the best places around the world to invest, emphasizing that it will take some work on your part.
In Breakout Nations, he takes us on a fascinating gallop through the countries at the edges of the developed world. Not only does he challenge the accepted wisdom--that China and India will motor on, ad infinitum--but he comes up with some surprising candidates for the next decade's economic stars.
... it's refreshing to read Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma's book on the Bric countries--Brazil, Russia, India, China--and the rest of the developing world... [H]is book offers a careful view that has little truck with forecasts of the relentless Bric-led rise of the emerging world.
The head of Morgan Stanley's emerging markets division conducts a brisk worldwide tour in search of new markets ready for takeoff. No first-book jitters for Sharma, longtime columnist for the likes of Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. His smooth, almost chummy style suits him ideally for guiding civilians through the sometimes-arcane thicket of the dismal science, looking for those emerging markets likely to disappoint or exceed expectations in the coming years... Confining his predictions to the near future, Sharma refreshingly comes across as that rare thing Harry Truman once sought: a 'one-handed economist' willing to stake his reputation without resort to "on the other hand" equivocation. For investors looking to place their bets and for general readers looking to understand the global economic landscape in the wake of the Great Recession.
A book that combines keen on-the-ground reporting and economic and investment analysis with lively, lucid prose. "
Breakout Nations is basically an investors lonely planet guide to the world for the new century. "
Mr. Sharma s intent is to help you find the best places around the world to invest, emphasizing that it will take some work on your part. "
At the core of this impressive book is the counter-intuitive argument that the boom of the mid-2000s was a blip in the long historical trend for emerging economies and that the next decade may be one of decelerating. In Sharma s view, the much-hyped decline of the West and emergence of the rest may take a lot longer than optimists would like to believe. "
... it s refreshing to read Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma s book on the Bric countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and the rest of the developing world... [H]is book offers a careful view that has little truck with forecasts of the relentless Bric-led rise of the emerging world. "
A primer to guide us... this is a great road-map to the new and better-balanced world in which we will all live, and an encouraging one. "
It is really the focus of economic attention around the world. It is a whole new look at which economies are going to be winners and which are going to be losers. --Prannoy Roy, NDTV"
There is no better book for country-by-country accounts of emerging markets (and riskier ones called frontier markets). Its strong point is the author s reliance on grassroots experience in each country, avoiding statistical charts. "
This is among the best books to understand the emerging world and its positive and negative aspects. Sharma matches the brilliance of Thomas L Friedman, author of the widely cited The World is Flat. "
Accessible to newbies and revelatory for veterans, Sharma's observations upend conventional wisdom regarding what it takes to succeed in the relentlessly competitive global marketplace.
[A] country-by-country tour de force of what makes emerging markets tick. He is an excellent writer with a keen eye for detail and a lyrical prose sense... As with Michael Lewis Boomerang on the European crisis, for sheer readability and insight on the various parts of the ongoing emerging drama I daresay you won t find a better choice. --Jon Anderson
Mr. Sharma 's intent is to help you find the best places around the world to invest, emphasizing that it will take some work on your part.
This week 's Book of the Week is, Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma, one of the world 's leading emerging market investors. This is the best book on global economic trends I ve read in a while. --Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS
... it 's refreshing to read Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma 's book on the Bric countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and the rest of the developing world... [H]is book offers a careful view that has little truck with forecasts of the relentless Bric-led rise of the emerging world.
The head of Morgan Stanley s emerging markets division conducts a brisk worldwide tour in search of new markets ready for takeoff. No first-book jitters for Sharma, longtime columnist for the likes of Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. His smooth, almost chummy style suits him ideally for guiding civilians through the sometimes-arcane thicket of the dismal science, looking for those emerging markets likely to disappoint or exceed expectations in the coming years... Confining his predictions to the near future, Sharma refreshingly comes across as that rare thing Harry Truman once sought: a 'one-handed economist' willing to stake his reputation without resort to on the other hand equivocation. For investors looking to place their bets and for general readers looking to understand the global economic landscape in the wake of the Great Recession.
This week s Book of the Week is, Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma, one of the world s leading emerging market investors. This is the best book on global economic trends I ve read in a while. --Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS
Breakout Nations works best as a compilation of highly illuminating country vignettes--similar, say, to Michael Lewis' Boomerang... As with Mr. Lewis' work on the European crisis, for sheer readability and insight on the various parts of the ongoing developing world drama, I dare say you won't find a better choice. --Jonathan Anderson
Mr. Sharma's intent is to help you find the best places around the world to invest, emphasizing that it will take some work on your part.
In Breakout Nations, he takes us on a fascinating gallop through the countries at the edges of the developed world. Not only does he challenge the accepted wisdom--that China and India will motor on, ad infinitum--but he comes up with some surprising candidates for the next decade's economic stars.
... it's refreshing to read Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma's book on the Bric countries--Brazil, Russia, India, China--and the rest of the developing world... [H]is book offers a careful view that has little truck with forecasts of the relentless Bric-led rise of the emerging world.
The head of Morgan Stanley's emerging markets division conducts a brisk worldwide tour in search of new markets ready for takeoff. No first-book jitters for Sharma, longtime columnist for the likes of Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. His smooth, almost chummy style suits him ideally for guiding civilians through the sometimes-arcane thicket of the dismal science, looking for those emerging markets likely to disappoint or exceed expectations in the coming years... Confining his predictions to the near future, Sharma refreshingly comes across as that rare thing Harry Truman once sought: a 'one-handed economist' willing to stake his reputation without resort to "on the other hand" equivocation. For investors looking to place their bets and for general readers looking to understand the global economic landscape in the wake of the Great Recession.
A book that combines keen on-the-ground reporting and economic and investment analysis with lively, lucid prose. "
Breakout Nations is basically an investors lonely planet guide to the world for the new century. "
Mr. Sharma s intent is to help you find the best places around the world to invest, emphasizing that it will take some work on your part. "
At the core of this impressive book is the counter-intuitive argument that the boom of the mid-2000s was a blip in the long historical trend for emerging economies and that the next decade may be one of decelerating. In Sharma s view, the much-hyped decline of the West and emergence of the rest may take a lot longer than optimists would like to believe. "
... it s refreshing to read Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma s book on the Bric countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and the rest of the developing world... [H]is book offers a careful view that has little truck with forecasts of the relentless Bric-led rise of the emerging world. "
A primer to guide us... this is a great road-map to the new and better-balanced world in which we will all live, and an encouraging one. "
It is really the focus of economic attention around the world. It is a whole new look at which economies are going to be winners and which are going to be losers. --Prannoy Roy, NDTV"
There is no better book for country-by-country accounts of emerging markets (and riskier ones called frontier markets). Its strong point is the author s reliance on grassroots experience in each country, avoiding statistical charts. "
This is among the best books to understand the emerging world and its positive and negative aspects. Sharma matches the brilliance of Thomas L Friedman, author of the widely cited The World is Flat. "
