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Good Economics for Hard Times Hardcover - 2019

by Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo

In this ambitious, provocative book prize-winning economists show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalized world: in short Good Economics has been done badly.


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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

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  • Title Good Economics for Hard Times
  • Author Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs
  • Date 2019-11-12
  • ISBN 9781610399500 / 1610399501
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Globalization, Economics
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2019, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/04/2019, Page 0

About the author

Abhijit V. Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Their previous book together is Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, winner of the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
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