McCartney, Mathew, Pakistan – The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State, 1951–2009, Routledge, London and New York, ISBN13: 978-0-415-57747-2 and ISBN13: 978-0-203-81476-5, 2011, pp. 241. This book is, one can assert without a doubt, sui generis, unique in that it provides an entirely new perspective on the development of Pakistan’s political economy. It is a thorough and objective analysis, an eye-opener, and the author leaves no stone unturned.