Good Economics for Hard Times

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
First edition cover (UK/India)
AuthorAbhijit V. Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Audio read byJames Lurie[1]
Working titleGood Economics, Bad Economics: Six Ways We Get the World Wrong and How to Set It Right[2]
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics
PublisherPublicAffairs
Publication date
November 12, 2019
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages432 pp
ISBN978-1-61039-950-0 (US)
Websitegoodeconomicsforhardtimes.com

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Juggernaut Books (India), and Allen Lane (UK). The book draws from recent developments in economics research to argue solutions to the issues facing modern economies and societies around the world, including slowing economic growth, immigration, income inequality, climate change, globalization and technological unemployment.[3] It is their second collaborative book since the publication of their book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) and their first since becoming a married couple in 2015. The book's publication comes a month after Banerjee and Duflo were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Harvard University professor Michael Kremer.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee by Esther Duflo Read by James Lurie". PublicAffairs. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  2. ^ "Good Economics, Bad Economics: Six Ways We Get the World Wrong and How to Set It Right by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo". Booktopia. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  3. ^ "Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee by Esther Duflo". PublicAffairs. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  4. ^ Smialek, Jeanna (October 14, 2019). "Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Pioneers in Reducing Poverty". The New York Times. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  5. ^ Lynch, Russell (October 14, 2019). "Poverty-busting woman wins economics Nobel for only the second time in 50 years". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved October 21, 2019.