Who is the author of 'I Do What I Do'?

"I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric and Resolve" is a book by Raghuram G. Rajan, published in 2017. It is a collection of his speeches and writings from his time as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

About the book:

The title comes from a remark Rajan made at a press conference in 2013, when asked whether he was a "hawk" or a "dove" on interest rates. He replied, "My name is Raghuram Rajan, and I do what I do."

The book covers his work on controlling inflation, introducing inflation targeting, cleaning up bad loans in banks (the Asset Quality Review), financial inclusion and banking reforms.

It also includes his views on demonetisation, tolerance and the role of the central bank.

About Raghuram Rajan:

• He was born in 1963 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
• He studied at IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad and MIT.
• He was the youngest and first non-Western Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from 2003 to 2006.
• In 2005, he warned about risks in the financial system, before the global financial crisis of 2008.
• He served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (2012-2013) and as the 23rd Governor of the RBI (September 2013 to September 2016).
• He is a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

His other books:

• "Fault Lines" (2010), which won the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
• "Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists" (2003, with Luigi Zingales).
• "The Third Pillar" (2019), on the role of communities alongside markets and the state.
• "Breaking the Mould" (2023, with Rohit Lamba).

Books by other RBI governors and economists:

• Urjit Patel: "Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver" (2020).
• Subbarao: "Who Moved My Interest Rate?" (2016).
• V. Reddy: "Advice and Dissent" (2017).
• Amartya Sen: "Poverty and Famines", "Development as Freedom", "The Argumentative Indian".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Urjit Patel wrote "Overdraft".
• ✗Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economics (1998).
• ✗V. Reddy wrote "Advice and Dissent".