TY - BOOK AU - Banerjee,Abhijit V. AU - Duflo,Esther TI - Good economics for hard times SN - 9781610399500 AV - HB171 .B36 2019 U1 - 330/.9 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - PublicAffairs KW - Economics KW - Economic history KW - 1990- KW - Globalization KW - Business & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics KW - local KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-383) and index; MEGA : make economics great again -- From the mouth of the shark -- The pains from trade -- Likes, wants, and needs -- The end of growth? -- In hot water -- Player piano -- Legit.gov -- Cash and care -- Conclusion : good and bad economics; Economics N2 - "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 ... 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 ... book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge"--Publisher's description UR - https://opac.northsouth.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=92ed87079f3bfdccaf5d5a6824c8fd83 ER -