Good Economics for Hard Times

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

First edition cover (UK/India)
Author	Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo
Audio read by	James Lurie[1]
Working title	Good Economics, Bad Economics: Six Ways We Get the World Wrong and How to Set It Right[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Economics
Publisher	PublicAffairs
Publication date	November 12, 2019
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	432 pp
ISBN	978-1-61039-950-0 (US)
Website	goodeconomicsforhardtimes.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]