This book will leave the reader not just smarter - but wiser. -- Professor Erik Angner
Stockholm University author of How Economics Can Save the World We live in the economy - and
we are part of it. Living through a pandemic governments had to work out how to put economies
into a deep freeze without destroying them. Avoiding climate catastrophe means changing
economies so that they don't bake the world. In explaining how economic thinking is
indispensable to tackling these huge problems this book is a sure-footed guide spanning
Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of
moral character for sustained economic development and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the
world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how the greatest economic
thinkers - Karl Marx Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek among many others - have enabled us
to see the world differently and how we can make it better. It shows that economic thinking
emerged long before there were economists - and that good economics is about much more than
the economy so everyone should understand these vital ideas. Entertaining and educational
you'll soon be rethinking what you know about economics especially when the book shows how
women found a place in the development of ideas even when discrimination denied them any formal
role.
