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Good economics for hard times : better answers to our biggest problems / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin economicsPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2020.Description: x, 402 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780141986197 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 23
LOC classification:
  • HB171.5
Summary: The experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wheel (perhaps with the foot on the gas pedal) in the run-up to the great recession, squabbling about how to get out of it, tone-deaf in discussions of the plight of Greece or the Euro area; they seem to have lost the ability to provide reliable guidance on the great problems of the day. In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalised world: in short Good Economics has been done badly.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 330 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R16898A0499

Originally published: Great Britain: Allen Lane, 2019.

"An Allen Lane book"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wheel (perhaps with the foot on the gas pedal) in the run-up to the great recession, squabbling about how to get out of it, tone-deaf in discussions of the plight of Greece or the Euro area; they seem to have lost the ability to provide reliable guidance on the great problems of the day. In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalised world: in short Good Economics has been done badly.

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