From The Great Gatsby to Crazy Rich Asians, stories about privilege and why we love them
A Wall Street satire by Tom Wolfe. Edith Wharton’s jab at high society. Six books that offer a sense of escape yet are ...
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Positive vs. Normative Economics: What's the Difference?
She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical analyst. Economics is a field that exists between scientific objectivity and subjective interpretation. Suppose a policymaker is ...
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...
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BSc Economics and Economic History
The UK launch of these books was held at LSE and a podcast of these authors speaking in the Old Theatre, along with many other talks, is available at lse.ac.uk/podcasts It's also a very good idea to ...