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In his latest book, The Third Pillar, Raghuram Rajan, professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, asks another critical question: what has caused the rise of the nationalist populism?

From reshaping banking theory to exploring how capitalism sowed its own seeds of des­truction (Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists) or how providing subsidised credit to allay widening income inequality and rising job insecurity in the US ended up as the biggest global crisis since the Great Depression (Fault Lines), Raghuram Rajan has a penchant for asking the big questions.

In his latest book, The Third Pillar, Rajan, professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, asks another critical question:

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