"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
We call it progress, but it’s mostly déjà vu.
In The Invisible Ledger, Abhishake Kumawat reveals how money, greed, and memory keep replaying the same game.
- Ankur Warikoo
What if every economic crisis we call “unprecedented” is really a sequel we’ve seen before? The Invisible Ledger traces the last hundred years of money, markets, and mistakes, from gold standards to crypto, recessions to recoveries, showing how economies were actually lived, not just recorded. Through pay cuts, job queues, bubbles, and quiet booms, it tells the human story behind the numbers.
Each chapter captures a decade as it was felt, revealing how ambition-built industries, ideology fuelled conflict, and confidence, more than capital, moved the world. You’ll encounter the thinkers who debated, the investors who gambled, and the ordinary people who bore the cost.
This isn’t nostalgia; it’s perspective. The next “new” idea in finance or technology is often an old pattern in disguise. By the final page, economics becomes history in motion, messy, human, and endlessly repeating. Because every boom and bust begins in the same place, the human mind
Write your review for this book (optional)
Review Deleted
Your review has been deleted and won’t appear on the book anymore.
Abhishake Kumawat
Abhishake Kumawat is a seasoned banker with over two decades of experience in India’s financial landscape.
Throughout his career, Abhishake has been guided by a central question: how can finance serve people, not the other way around? This belief informs his work as both a banker and a thinker, shaping his views on innovation, trust, and the evolving role of money. In this book, he traces the journey of global economics from its industrial roots to a future driven by technology, climate realities, and human resilience—reminding readers that economics, at its core, is ultimately about people.
