Good Economics for Hard Times

為什么移民給經濟帶來的影響，不遵循供求規律？

為什么貿易會導致失業率上升和工資下降？

誰曾經真正解釋了增長的原因和發生的時機？

從新德里到達喀爾，從巴黎到華盛頓特區，移民問題、收入差距、全球化困局、技術顛覆、經濟增長放緩、氣候變化加速等問題隨處可見，如何妥善處理這些問題，或許是我們這個時代的核心挑戰。我們已然擁有了應對這些挑戰的資源，但缺乏能夠幫助我們消弭分歧、重建互信的理念，以及，我們常常錯用了經濟學。

在這本革命性的著作中，2019年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、麻省理工學院著名經濟學家班納吉和迪弗洛直面上述挑戰，以明晰優雅的筆觸闡述了經濟學領域的前沿研究成果，提出了諸多富有創新和啟發性的解決方案，以令人信服的理由闡釋了我們應該采取哪些明智之舉，以應對經濟增長、移民、貧困等迫切挑戰。

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 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, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. 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 revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo 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 an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.