Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Nations by Ruchir Sharma

No new answers to the age-old but urgent questions, writes Neil Robinson.

Imagine for a moment that you are an official in an economics ministry. You are off to a meeting on the other side of the world and you’re killing sometime in the airport bookshop as you wait for your flight.

Your attention is caught by a copy of Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise and Fall of Nations. It’s a good title. Then you see Sharma’s subtitle — Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World — and you’re hooked.