We Also Make Policy
An Insider's Account of How the Finance Ministry Functions
Economic policy has a direct impact on how people live, eat,
work and spend. It governs every aspect of life, and finance secretaries are
central to how economic policy is made and implemented. In this book, Subhash
Chandra Garg, former economic affairs secretary and finance secretary, tells
the inside story of how economic policy is made, and unmade, at the highest
levels in the Government of India.
We Also Make Policy is a book written by Subhash Chandra Garg, a former economic affairs secretary and finance secretary. It provides an insider’s account of how economic policy is made and unmade at the highest levels in the Government of India. The book is a fly-on-the-wall account of proceedings within the finance ministry. It talks candidly about controversial decisions from the first tenure of the NDA government, such as the politics of ‘minimum support price’ to farmers, electoral bonds, recapitalizing of banks, monetizing national assets, and the controversial resignation of RBI Governor Urjit Patel. As the author of three Union Budgets, Garg also talks about what it takes to put the Budget together: the pressures, the processes, the calculations, and above all, the politics.
