In December 2013 the investment manager Ruchir Sharma was on the road in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, interviewing locals in connection with upcoming elections. Everywhere he went, people “would angrily reel off to the exact rupee” the price increases for potatoes, ghee and?onions over the past five years, Sharma writes in The Rise and Fall of Nations. “Talk of inflation trumped other pressing issues, such as corruption and unemployment.”
2013年12月,投資經理魯奇爾?夏爾馬(Ruchir Sharma)在印度中央邦(Madhya Pradesh)和拉賈斯坦邦(Rajasthan)街頭,就即將開始的選舉采訪當地人。夏爾馬在《國家的興衰》(Rise and Fall of Nations)一書中寫道,他所到之處,人們都“憤怒地念叨著(過去5年土豆、酥油和洋蔥的價格)具體上漲了多少盧比……有關通脹的聲音蓋過了其他緊迫問題,例如腐敗和失業。”