About the Book: We Also Make Policy: An Insiders 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 fly-on-the-wall account of proceedings within the
finance ministry. The book talks candidly about controversial decisions from the
first