Author Podcast- The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Dani Rodrik recommended the book;

I just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a splendid little book by Mohsin Hamid. It is about a young Pakistani, a Princeton graduate, who works as an investment analyst in New York. After September 11, he discovers that neither he nor America is what he thought they were. It is a great book for all of us expats in America who went through a renewed culture shock in the aftermath of that momentous event.

And did I say the book had nothing to do with economics? The "Fundamentalist" in the title is actually a play on words. The narrator's job consists of evaluating companies based on their fundamentals

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