Book Launch: Good Economics For Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Event Overview

At this event, Esther Duflo introduced "Good Economics for Hard Times", a new book co-authored with Abhijit Banerjee, where they draw on the best recent economics to demonstrate how to think about these problems differently, and present intelligent, daring solutions based on sound research into real-life situations , towards a society built on compassion and respect. 

In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, the authors of the prize-winning POOR ECONOMCS (2011), 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 intelligent forms of intervention, based on sound research into real-life situations; and a society built on compassion and respect.  It shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.   

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