Raghuram Rajan: The oxygen of competition

RAGHURAM RAJAN WAS in some ways a bold choice as the replacement for Ken Rogoff as the IMF’s chief economist. A 40-year-old Indian-born professor at the University of Chicago, he is perhaps best known for the book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, published this year.

The book, which Rajan wrote with fellow Chicago professor Luigi Zingales, is about how businessmen try to rig the markets in their favour, through political contacts and the capture of government regulation.