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India in the Age of Ideas: Select Writings: 2006–2018
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| Author:
Sanjeev Sanyal
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Economist, environmentalist and urban theorist Sanjeev Sanyal brings the deftness of a polymath to explore completely new ways to think about India and its place in the world.
The idea of constantly and organically updating one’s views/actions through feedback loops shows up in many places in my writings. This derives directly from the view that the real world is fundamentally unstable and unpredictable (i.e., it’s not a matter of having a better forecasting model). The best response to such a world, therefore, is to have a good grasp of what is currently happening and to respond quickly and flexibly to the evolving situation.
My worldview derives from many sources ranging from religious philosophy and long-range history, to Chaos Theory and Network Theory—with many of them integrated under a broad CAS framework. Some of the foreign writers and thinkers who have influenced me include Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Daniel Kahneman, Lee Kuan Yew, Nassim Taleb, Karl Popper, Charles Darwin, Sun Tzu, Vidiadhar Naipaul and Jane Jacobs, to name a few.
The Indian influences are even more varied and range from ancient texts, such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and Kautilya’s Arthashastra, to more modern thinkers, such as Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo.
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Economist, environmentalist and urban theorist Sanjeev Sanyal brings the deftness of a polymath to explore completely new ways to think about India and its place in the world.
The idea of constantly and organically updating one’s views/actions through feedback loops shows up in many places in my writings. This derives directly from the view that the real world is fundamentally unstable and unpredictable (i.e., it’s not a matter of having a better forecasting model). The best response to such a world, therefore, is to have a good grasp of what is currently happening and to respond quickly and flexibly to the evolving situation.
My worldview derives from many sources ranging from religious philosophy and long-range history, to Chaos Theory and Network Theory—with many of them integrated under a broad CAS framework. Some of the foreign writers and thinkers who have influenced me include Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Daniel Kahneman, Lee Kuan Yew, Nassim Taleb, Karl Popper, Charles Darwin, Sun Tzu, Vidiadhar Naipaul and Jane Jacobs, to name a few.
The Indian influences are even more varied and range from ancient texts, such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and Kautilya’s Arthashastra, to more modern thinkers, such as Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo.
About Author
Sanjeev Sanyal is an internationally acclaimed economist and bestselling author. He is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the G-20 Framework Working Group. Prior to joining the government, he was Global Strategist and Managing Director at Deutsche Bank. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. Sanjeev is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban dynamics. He was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University; Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore; and a Senior Fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature. In 2016, he served in the Future City Sub-Committee of the Singapore government tasked with building a long-term vision for the city-state, and is currently a member of the committee tasked with writing a new National Urban Policy for India. Sanjeev went to Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His bestselling books include Land of the Seven Rivers, Life over Two Beers and The Ocean of Churn, and he has co-authored Iconic Indians: 75 Extraordinary Individuals Who Inspired the Country with Rajesh Singh.
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