Raghuram Rajan: Working on thin files

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There was a time, not so long ago, when Raghuram Rajan was branded a Luddite by Lawrence Summers. He laughs about it now.

“As an academic or a thinker, if you’re not criticized, then you’re not really doing your job,” he says.