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Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Good Economics for Hard Times about?
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
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781541762879
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Economics, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (3,926 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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