Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer the world most of us experience day-in and day-out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive. In Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and ill-targeted, and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world. Angrynomics is for anyone wondering, where the hell do we go from here?
Price: $19.95
Pages: 208
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Imprint: Agenda Publishing
Publication Date:
17 June 2020
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.10 in
ISBN: 9781788212793
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humour, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To their great credit, they also provide creative – and practical – ideas for moving forward.
Eric Lonergan is a policy economist and author, with over twenty years' experience in financial markets. He is co-author with Mark Blyth of the international bestseller, Angrynomics. He has written extensively on innovations in monetary policy and frequently contributes to the Financial Times.
Mark Blyth is the William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics at Brown University. He is the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (2013/2015).
Introduction: from economics to angrynomics
Dialogue 1 Public anger and the energy of tribes
Dialogue 2 The moral mobs and their handlers
Dialogue 3 Macroangrynomics: capitalism as hardware, with crashes and resets
Dialogue 4 Microangrynomics: private stressors, uncertainty and risk
Dialogue 5 Calming the anger: from angrynomics to an economics that works for everyone
Postscript: angrynomics in a pandemic
Conclusions
