Good Economics for Hard Times
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo · first published 2019
100% recommend
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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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…
on “Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll” ↗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.
on “Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?” ↗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.
on “Ask HN: I have no idea about world economics. How I can fix that?” ↗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:…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?” ↗