Good Economics for Hard Times
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.
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- Try reading Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo.
It won't make you an expert, but atleast it's a start.
The authors are Nobel laureates in Economics, so they probably know what they're talking about.
- Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Great introduction to current social issues and how modern economics can help us make sense of them.
- A big shout out for "Good Economics for Hard Times", by two MIT profs who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Why did two academic Economists who specialize in the developing world write a book for the general public? From the book's preface: "We got tired of watching at a distance while the public conversation about core economic issues - immigration, trade, growth, inequality, or the environment - goes more and more out of kilter. ... Also ... as we thought about it, we realized the problems facing the rich countries in the world were actually eerily familiar to those we are used to studying in the developing world - people left behind by development, ballooning inequality, lack of faith in government, fractured societies and polity, and so on."
- Just wanted to say, I'm currently reading Good Economics for Hard Times by Banerjee and Duflo (the 2019 Nobel Prize winners), and it talks about this. It's a really interesting read about how we can make a more just society without giving up on capitalism as a whole, and quite a shocking transition from what you hear a lot on TV or from older economists (about trickle down, etc.). I'd recommend everyone read it; I got it from library, but now want to go buy my own copy to keep coming back to and rereading.
