Angrynomics

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An excellent companion to Yanis Varoufakis's Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails—in that both books 1) presume that you are not a professional economist but 2) do not take your intelligence for granted, and 3) present what could have been dry and lifeless material in a spirited, even artful manner (YV's is more the champ at this, to be honest, but Lonergan and Blyth make a pretty good effort).

Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Esta muy claro que la incertidumbre y la inseguridad en nuestra vida laboral han aumentado de manera desconcertante y estresante. Yes, book has parts about angryness and tribalism, but for me surprisingly they were very interesting, not boring.Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? El hecho es que, cada vez que se ha producido un cambio tecnológico importante, la demanda de mano de obra ha aumentado, no disminuido.

As a person with little knowledge of economics but an interest I found it accessible and challenging to some of my preconceived ideas. Sure, we should certainly have much more control over our data but proposing that selling it is a solution vs confronting the chasm of inequality, for fear of a backlash or rejection, is shameful. The authors acknowledge this as one of the trade-offs they made for readability, and their more academic publications answer these points. Overall, the authors spend the first four chapters teeing up the opportunity to talk about their own work and macro ideas (hellicopter drops etc).The clarity is good, it's well articulated, and for the most part explains its concepts in a very accessible way. Then whenever Blyth ‘asks a genuine question’, I found it interrupts your listening and you end up losing track of the discussion. Inequality is anger's seed, but it sprouts into rage when people believe that the system is rigged against them . g. increase in populism, unequal distribution of wealth, extreme monopoly by big tech companies, and does so with lots of good analogy and examples.