Good Economics for Hard Times

为什么移民给经济带来的影响，不遵循供求规律？

为什么贸易会导致失业率上升和工资下降？

谁曾经真正解释了增长的原因和发生的时机？

从新德里到达喀尔，从巴黎到华盛顿特区，移民问题、收入差距、全球化困局、技术颠覆、经济增长放缓、气候变化加速等问题随处可见，如何妥善处理这些问题，或许是我们这个时代的核心挑战。我们已然拥有了应对这些挑战的资源，但缺乏能够帮助我们消弭分歧、重建互信的理念，以及，我们常常错用了经济学。

在这本革命性的著作中，2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主、麻省理工学院著名经济学家班纳吉和迪弗洛直面上述挑战，以明晰优雅的笔触阐述了经济学领域的前沿研究成果，提出了诸多富有创新和启发性的解决方案，以令人信服的理由阐释了我们应该采取哪些明智之举，以应对经济增长、移民、贫困等迫切挑战。

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.