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In Spite Of The Gods
by Edward Luce
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Social Science. Luce shows that India is an economic rival to the United States in an entirely different sense from China. There is nothing in India like the manufacturing capacity of China, despite the huge potential labor force. An inept system of public education leaves most Indians illiterate and unskilled. Yet, at the other extreme, the middle class produces ten times as many engineering students a year as the United States.
About The Author
Edward Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, DC. Before that he was the FT’s Washington bureau chief and South Asia Bureau Chief based in New Delhi.
He is the author of the 2006 book In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, and the 2012 book Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline, published with a different subtitle in North America: Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent.
His first job was as a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva. He first joined the Financial Times in 1995 and reported for the FT from the Philippines, after which he took one-year sabbatical working in Washington, DC as the speech writer to Lawrence Summers, then US treasury secretary (19992001) during the Clinton administration.
Luce graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from New College, Oxford, in 1990, and completed a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University, London. He has studied at various boarding schools around Sussex. He is the son of Richard Luce, and his first cousin is the writer, actress, and comedian Miranda Hart.
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