The Economists' Hour
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Author | Binyamin Appelbaum |
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Audio read by | Dan Bittner |
Language | English |
Subject | Economics |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | September 3, 2019 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print/digital |
Pages | 448 |
ISBN | 978-0316512329 |
Website | binyaminappelbaum |
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society is a book on the historic ascent of economists in influence, written by Binyamin Appelbaum, a New York Times editorial writer, and published by Little, Brown and Company in September 2019.
Reception
[edit]The book was noted by The Economist as journalistic in its approach to the rise of economists involved with public policymaking, by, in example, presenting "the intellectual case" to facilitate twenty years of tax cuts, from the 1960s on, and by helping to engineer two decades of deregulation from the 1970s.[1]
The Economists' Hour was also reviewed by The Boston Globe[2] and The Atlantic,[3] among other publications.
In 2019, the book was named a Wall Street Journal business bestseller[4] and named the Porchlight Business Book Award winner for Narrative and Biography.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "When economists ruled the world they have a lot to answer for, says Binyamin Appelbaum". The Economist. September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
- ^ "Games Economists Play". Boston Review. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
- ^ "How Economists' Faith in Markets Broke America". The Atlantic. September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
- ^ "Best-Selling Books Week Ended September 7". The Wall Street Journal. September 13, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
- ^ "The 2019 Business Book Awards". porchlightbooks.com. Retrieved March 26, 2024.