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Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee

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 t...

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

They explained that they had written the book to serve as a loudspeaker for what economists actually do, hoping it would help people understand the diversity of work in economics.

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Recently, we wrote a book called Good Economics for Hard Time, which was trying to be a bit of a loudspeaker for what economists do in reality, so that maybe people understand and get familiarized wit...

— Episode: We are supported by... Esther Duflo

Episode: We are supported by... Esther Duflo

They explained that they had written the book to serve as a loudspeaker for what economists actually do, hoping it would help people understand the diversity of work in economics.

"

Recently, we wrote a book called Good Economics for Hard Time, which was trying to be a bit of a loudspeaker for what economists do in reality, so that maybe people understand and get familiarized with all of the type of different work and also the diversity of results.

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