Abhijit V. Banerjee. (2019). Good Economics for Hard Times. PublicAffairs.

Abhijit V. Banerjee. 2019. Good Economics for Hard Times. PublicAffairs.

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times. PublicAffairs, 2019.

Abhijit V. Banerjee. Good Economics for Hard Times. PublicAffairs, 2019.

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   • bioText: Abhijit V. Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Their previous book together is Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, winner of the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
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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...

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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 intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

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     September 15, 2019
     "Quality of life means more than just consumption": Two MIT economists urge that a smarter, more politically aware economics be brought to bear on social issues. It's no secret, write Banerjee and Duflo (co-authors: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way To Fight Global Poverty, 2011), that "we seem to have fallen on hard times." Immigration, trade, inequality, and taxation problems present themselves daily, and they seem to be intractable. Economics can be put to use in figuring out these big-issue questions. Data can be adduced, for example, to answer the question of whether immigration tends to suppress wages. The answer: "There is no evidence low-skilled migration to rich countries drives wage and employment down for the natives." In fact, it opens up opportunities for those natives by freeing them to look for better work. The problem becomes thornier when it comes to the matter of free trade; as the authors observe, "left-behind people live in left-behind places," which explains why regional poverty descended on Appalachia when so many manufacturing jobs left for China in the age of globalism, leaving behind not just left-behind people but also people ripe for exploitation by nationalist politicians. The authors add, interestingly, that the same thing occurred in parts of Germany, Spain, and Norway that fell victim to the "China shock." In what they call a "slightly technical aside," they build a case for addressing trade issues not with trade wars but with consumption taxes: "It makes no sense to ask agricultural workers to lose their jobs just so steelworkers can keep theirs, which is what tariffs accomplish." Policymakers might want to consider such counsel, especially when it is coupled with the observation that free trade benefits workers in poor countries but punishes workers in rich ones. Occasionally wonky but overall a good case for how the dismal science can make the world less--well, dismal.

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     Starred review from November 4, 2019
     MIT professors Banerjee and Duflo (Poor Economics), winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, apply pragmatic, real world–tested economic ideas to such issues as global trade, immigration, prejudice, income inequality, and the feasibility of a universal basic income in this lucid and frequently surprising account. The authors’ findings often run counter to conventional wisdom, as in their conclusion that immigrants do not lower wages or steal jobs from native workers, but actually create more wealth and income as they expand local communities. Banerjee and Duflo contend that employment provides people with dignity and an identity, not just income; therefore, a universal basic income won’t solve problems stemming from the lack of well-paying and meaningful jobs. Misguided moral thinking, the authors reveal in their takedown of claims that the U.S. welfare system is rampantly abused, often gets in the way of sound economic policy. They also make the case that impoverished people make sound financial decisions more often than they’re given credit for, citing the example of a Moroccan man who prioritized buying a television over purchasing food. When the lack of entertainment in his remote village and the value of relieving his family’s boredom are taken into consideration, the authors write, the man’s decision makes sense. Banerjee and Duflo’s arguments are original and open-minded and their evidence is clearly presented. Policy makers and lay readers looking for fresh insights into contemporary economic matters will savor this illuminating book.

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