Licence to Be Bad

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1. arethuzaFeb 2021
   I found License to be Bad a fascinating view of the field of economics:

   https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306792/licence-to-be-bad...

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2. arethuzaAug 2019
   I can recommend the book "Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us" by Jonathan Aldred - it makes a pretty strong case that the way economics has influenced politics over the last few decades has had a pretty strong negative impact on society:

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43267091-licence-to-be-b...

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3. arethuzaAug 2019
   Arrow's work is covered (at a high level) in "Licence to be Bad, How Economics Corrupted Us" by Jonathan Aldred:

   https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306792/licence-to-be-bad...

   Edit: A really good book - once I finished listening to the audiobook version I went right back to the start and listened to it again and I'm going to order a paper version.

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4. vixen99Jul 2019
   'Licence to be Bad - How Economics Corrupted Us' by Jonathan Alred, a Cambridge economist, engagingly tells how a group of economic theorists changed our world' in terms of how wealth maximization became the new morality. Unputdownable!
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