We Also Make Policy
An Insider's Account of How the Finance Ministry Functions
Subhash Chandra Garg
- Economic
- policy
- has
- a
- direct
- impact
- on
- how
- people
- live,
- eat,
- work
- and
- spend.
- It
- governs
- every
- aspect
- of
- life,
- and
- finance
- secretaries
- are
- central
- to
- how
- economic
- policy
- is
- made
- and
- implemented.
- In
- this
- book,
- Subhash
- Chandra
- Garg,
- former
- economic
- affairs
- secretary
- and
- finance
- secretary,
- tells
- the
- inside
- story
- of
- how
- economic
- policy
- is
- made,
- and
- unmade,
- at
- the
- highest
- levels
- in
- the
- Government
- of
- India.We
- Also
- Make
- Policy
- is
- a
- fly-on-the-wall
- account
- of
- proceedings
- within
- the
- finance
- ministry.
- The
- book
- talks
- candidly
- about
- controversial
- decisions
- from
- the
- first
- tenure
- of
- the
- NDA
- government,
- such
- as
- the
- politics
- of
- 'minimum
- support
- price'
- to
- farmers,
- electoral
- bonds,
- recapitalizing
- of
- banks,
- monetizing
- national
- assets
- and
- the
- controversial
- resignation
- of
- RBI
- Governor
- Urjit
- Patel,
- among
- others.
- As
- the
- author
- of
- three
- Union
- Budgets,
- Garg
- also
- talks
- about
- what
- it
- takes
- to
- put
- the
- Budget
- together:
- the
- pressures,
- the
- processes,
- the
- calculations
- and,
- above
- all,
- the politics.
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