亿万富翁拉吉 印度新镀金时代的旅程

亿万富翁拉吉：印度新镀金时代的旅程

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

生动而深刻地描绘了印度新亿万富翁阶层在一个极度不平等的社会中崛起的历程

印度是世界上最大的民主国家，人口超过 10 亿，经济增长速度超过中国。但这种增长带来的回报远非均等分享，该国最富有的 1% 人现在拥有近 60% 的财富。在孟买这样的大城市，一半人口生活在贫民窟，印度新王朝的巨额财富与美国镀金时代的范德比尔特家族和洛克菲勒家族如出一辙，他们将大型企业集团的利润投入到炫耀性消费的生活方式中。

詹姆斯·克拉布特里的《亿万富翁统治》带领读者踏上一段个人旅程，结识这些隐居的亿万富翁、逃亡大亨和神秘的政治权力掮客。从世界上最昂贵的住宅的空中露台到贫困的村庄和大规模的政治集会，克拉布特里戏剧化地描绘了裙带资本家和经济改革者之间的斗争，揭示了在抱负、阶级和种姓的易燃背景下，平等和特权之间的紧张斗争。

《亿万富翁统治》生动地描述了一个处于转型边缘的分裂社会——这场斗争不仅将塑造印度的未来，也将塑造世界的未来。

亿万富翁统治：印度新镀金时代之旅

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英国作家詹姆斯·克拉布特里 (James Crabtree) 于 2018 年撰写的一本非小说类书籍。这本书讲述了印度的贫富不均，探讨了印度亿万富翁、种姓和经济改革倡导者。克拉布特里是《金融时报》的记者。

反响
在《文学评论》中，奥利弗·巴尔奇 (Oliver Balch) 称这本书“非常有趣”，并写道，经济内容“既不无聊也不霸道”，但批评“其中一些例子过于熟悉”。[1]

《出版商周刊》的一篇评论称赞这本书是“对印度民主的宝贵评论”，并称赞克拉布特里“将记者的精准和才华融入到他的故事中”。[2] 《柯克斯书评》的一位评论家将这本书概括为“经济发展和全球经济学学生必读的书籍”。[3]《华尔街日报》的 Tunku Varadarajan 称赞这本书“生动、有价值地融合了实证和轶事”。[4]《泰晤士报》的 Melissa van der Klugt 称这本书“读起来很及时”，并表示克拉布特里“注重细节”，但指出这是一本“奇怪的大男子主义书籍”，因为书中很少提到女性。[5]

梅格纳德·德赛在《金融时报》撰文称，这本书是“对印度经济最全面、最易读的一次旅行”。[6]

《纽约时报》的乔纳森·尼哀叹，这本书“没有全面刻画印度亿万富翁的多元化群体”，而且“所描述的多种腐败形式之间的界限远非清晰”，不过尼称赞《亿万富翁的统治》“充满了深刻的启示”。[7]

V. Anantha Nageswaran 在《Mint》撰文指出，联合进步联盟在书中缺席，并称赞克拉布特里的写作和“优秀记者对细节的敏锐眼光”。[8] 评论了 IT 企业家的缺席，但认为“没有可比的印度镀金时代的描述”，称赞这本书是“报道瑰宝”，“值得广泛阅读”。[9]路透社的乌娜·加拉尼 (Una Galani) 指出，这本书并不乐观，但表示克拉布特里“值得称赞，因为他深入探讨了裙带关系”。[10]

《商业标准报》[11]、《金融时报》[12] 和《经济学人》[13] 也对这本书进行了评论。克拉布特里接受过多家媒体的采访，包括《Mint》、《印度时报》[14]、《The Wire》、《印度快报》[17] 和《金融快报》。[18]

奖项
2018 年 11 月，《亿万富翁拉吉》在孟买的 Tata LitLive! 奖上被评为年度商业书籍。[19]

提名
这本书入围了 2018 年《金融时报》和麦肯锡年度商业书籍奖。[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]