ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J Prakash is an electronics engineer and an MBA of vintage, 1977, from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has over 45 years of corporate and business experience. He started his professional career with IBM World Trade Corporation in 1971. He has held several top-management positions like Senior Vice President-Finance, CEO, and a Corporate Board Member at NICCO Group of Companies in Kolkata. He achieved all this before the young age of 36. In his professional career, he had the opportunity to interact with top corporate executives, bureaucrats, senior politicians, ministers of central and state governments, chairmen and senior executives of banks, labour union leaders, and so on. He has seen it all from close quarters. He ran a business of his own in the IT industry and has a keen interest in global economics. A compulsive observer and an avid thinker, he has his own views on economic issues which are amply evidenced by him in this book.

Experts is a myth. There are no experts. Period.


MY MUSINGS


“This absorbing book challenges conventional wisdom and set practices about how firms and economies operate and merits a close reading. One of its central themes is about the importance of cooperation over the competition if no one is to be left behind. This crucial idea is unfolding at present. The on-going pandemic has shown us how cooperation among competition firms can benefit humankind enormously.
This book brings attention to the interplay between competition and cooperation, both of which are central to the field of strategic management, but have emerged separately rather than a unified theme until recently.”

– Vidya Mahambare
Professor of Economics, Great Lakes Institute of Management

“This book, by J Prakash, as the title suggests, is intriguing. A must-read for everyone – from seasoned economists to millennial entrepreneurs and also the common man. His analysis is hard to accept but also difficult to reject at the same time. This book is unique for its style, for the analysis as well as for the prognosis of the future. Prakash seems to have done some deep thinking based on his commonsensical analysis backed by facts. I am sure it will cause some intellectual turbulence.”

– N Kumar
Vice-Chairman The Sanmar Group, Former President CII