Markets, Globalization & Development Review Volume 2 Number 3 The Globalization Hiccup Article 6 2017 Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations (2013) Victoria L. Rodner University of Stirling Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr Part of the Anthropology Commons, Economics Commons, International Business Commons, Marketing Commons, Other Business Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Rodner, Victoria L. (2017) "Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations (2013)," Markets, Globalization & Development Review: Vol. 2: No. 3, Article 6. DOI: 10.23860/MGDR-2017-02-03-06 Available at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/vol2/iss3/6https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/vol2/ iss3/6 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Markets, Globalization & Development Review by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations (2013) This book review is available in Markets, Globalization & Development Review: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/ vol2/iss3/6 Rodner: Book Review - Breakout Nations Book Review Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations (2013) Breakout Nations is an international bestseller. It has been heralded by the Wall Street Journal (and other similar outlets) as the ‘best choice’ out there on our ‘ongoing developing world’. The full title of this 2013 book is Breakout Nations – In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles, and it is published by W.W. Norton & Company, in New York. It goes without saying that Sharma is a truly global individual and it is evident that he hobnobs with the elite: peppered throughout the book are snippets of conversations Sharma has had with senior government officials, multinational bank managers, ultra-rich and ultra- influential businesspeople, and several presidents and/or prime ministers from across the globe.