億萬富翁拉吉 印度新鍍金時代的旅程

億萬富翁拉吉：印度新鍍金時代的旅程

https://www.amazon.ca/Billionaire-Raj-Journey-Through-Indias/dp/1524760072/ref=sr_1

作者：James Crabtree (Author) 2019 年 7 月 2 日

生動而深刻地描繪了印度新億萬富翁階層在一個極度不平等的社會中崛起的曆程

印度是世界上最大的民主國家，人口超過 10 億，經濟增長速度超過中國。但這種增長帶來的回報遠非均等分享，該國最富有的 1% 人現在擁有近 60% 的財富。在孟買這樣的大城市，一半人口生活在貧民窟，印度新王朝的巨額財富與美國鍍金時代的範德比爾特家族和洛克菲勒家族如出一轍，他們將大型企業集團的利潤投入到炫耀性消費的生活方式中。

詹姆斯·克拉布特裏的《億萬富翁統治》帶領讀者踏上一段個人旅程，結識這些隱居的億萬富翁、逃亡大亨和神秘的政治權力掮客。從世界上最昂貴的住宅的空中露台到貧困的村莊和大規模的政治集會，克拉布特裏戲劇化地描繪了裙帶資本家和經濟改革者之間的鬥爭，揭示了在抱負、階級和種姓的易燃背景下，平等和特權之間的緊張鬥爭。

《億萬富翁統治》生動地描述了一個處於轉型邊緣的分裂社會——這場鬥爭不僅將塑造印度的未來，也將塑造世界的未來。

億萬富翁統治：印度新鍍金時代之旅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billionaire_Raj

英國作家詹姆斯·克拉布特裏 (James Crabtree) 於 2018 年撰寫的一本非小說類書籍。這本書講述了印度的貧富不均，探討了印度億萬富翁、種姓和經濟改革倡導者。克拉布特裏是《金融時報》的記者。

反響
在《文學評論》中，奧利弗·巴爾奇 (Oliver Balch) 稱這本書“非常有趣”，並寫道，經濟內容“既不無聊也不霸道”，但批評“其中一些例子過於熟悉”。[1]

《出版商周刊》的一篇評論稱讚這本書是“對印度民主的寶貴評論”，並稱讚克拉布特裏“將記者的精準和才華融入到他的故事中”。[2] 《柯克斯書評》的一位評論家將這本書概括為“經濟發展和全球經濟學學生必讀的書籍”。[3]《華爾街日報》的 Tunku Varadarajan 稱讚這本書“生動、有價值地融合了實證和軼事”。[4]《泰晤士報》的 Melissa van der Klugt 稱這本書“讀起來很及時”，並表示克拉布特裏“注重細節”，但指出這是一本“奇怪的大男子主義書籍”，因為書中很少提到女性。[5]

梅格納德·德賽在《金融時報》撰文稱，這本書是“對印度經濟最全麵、最易讀的一次旅行”。[6]

《紐約時報》的喬納森·尼哀歎，這本書“沒有全麵刻畫印度億萬富翁的多元化群體”，而且“所描述的多種腐敗形式之間的界限遠非清晰”，不過尼稱讚《億萬富翁的統治》“充滿了深刻的啟示”。[7]

V. Anantha Nageswaran 在《Mint》撰文指出，聯合進步聯盟在書中缺席，並稱讚克拉布特裏的寫作和“優秀記者對細節的敏銳眼光”。[8] 評論了 IT 企業家的缺席，但認為“沒有可比的印度鍍金時代的描述”，稱讚這本書是“報道瑰寶”，“值得廣泛閱讀”。[9]路透社的烏娜·加拉尼 (Una Galani) 指出，這本書並不樂觀，但表示克拉布特裏“值得稱讚，因為他深入探討了裙帶關係”。[10]

《商業標準報》[11]、《金融時報》[12] 和《經濟學人》[13] 也對這本書進行了評論。克拉布特裏接受過多家媒體的采訪，包括《Mint》、《印度時報》[14]、《The Wire》、《印度快報》[17] 和《金融快報》。[18]

獎項
2018 年 11 月，《億萬富翁拉吉》在孟買的 Tata LitLive! 獎上被評為年度商業書籍。[19]

提名
這本書入圍了 2018 年《金融時報》和麥肯錫年度商業書籍獎。[20]

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age 

https://www.amazon.ca/Billionaire-Raj-Journey-Through-Indias/dp/1524760072/ref=sr_1

by James Crabtree (Author) July 2 2019

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society

India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption.  

James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste.

The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world's.

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billionaire_Raj

A 2018 non-fiction book written by British author James Crabtree. The book is about wealth inequality in India, exploring Indian billionaires, the caste, and economic reform advocates. Crabtree is a journalist for Financial Times.

Reception
In the Literary Review, Oliver Balch calls the book "thoroughly entertaining" and writes that the economic content "neither bores nor overbears", but criticises the "familiarity of some of its examples".[1]

A Publishers Weekly review lauds the book as "an invaluable commentary on Indian democracy", and praises Crabtree for "[bringing] a reporter's precision and flair to his story".[2] A Kirkus Reviews critic summarises the book as "[s]olid reading for students of economic development and global economics".[3] Tunku Varadarajan of Wall Street Journal compliments the book for being "a lively and valuable blend of the empirical and the anecdotal".[4] Melissa van der Klugt of The Times calls the book "timely reading" and says Crabtree has an "eye for detail", but notes that it is an "oddly macho book" due to only rare mentions of women.[5]

Writing in the Financial Times, Meghnad Desai describes the book as “the most comprehensive and eminently readable tour of economic India.”[6]

Jonathan Knee of The New York Times laments that the book "does not fully profile the diverse community of Indian billionaires" and that "the lines between the many forms of corruption described are far from clear", though Knee praises that The Billionaire Raj "is chock-full of profoundly revealing vignettes".[7]

Writing for Mint, V. Anantha Nageswaran notes the absence of the United Progressive Alliance in the book and praises Crabtree's writing and "eye of a good journalist for details".[8] comments on the absence of IT entrepreneurs, but believes there is "no comparable account of India's gilded age", complimenting the book as "a reporting gem" which "deserves to be widely read".[9] Una Galani of Reuters notes that the book is not optimistic but says that Crabtree "deserves credit for delving deep into cronyism".[10]

The book has also been reviewed in Business Standard,[11] Financial Times[12] and The Economist.[13] Crabtree has been interviewed on the book by multiple media outlets including Mint,[14] The Times of India,[15] The Wire,[16] The Indian Express[17] and The Financial Express.[18]

Awards
In November 2018, The Billionaire Raj was named Business Book of the Year at the Tata LitLive! Awards in Mumbai.[19]

Nominations
The book was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.[20]