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The Poets’ Guide to Economics could not have been more tailored to capture the eye and the imagination of an economist like me, with a different perspective, idea and vision on economics.
“Economics matter. Bad policies, based on mistaken theories, led to an economic collapse at the end of the 1920s. This set the scene for world-wide conflict in the 1930s. Will today’s economists make a better fist of the 2020s? The years of Keynesian plenty are long gone. Economics seems to be in trouble- too entrenched to be stormed from outside, too narrow to cope on its own. A spate of recent books suggest that prominent economists are worried.In Good Economics for Hard Times (2019), the Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee call for a change of course and conclude:
Economics is too important to be left to economists.
Or, as Robert Skidelsky puts it In What’s Wrong with Economics (2020):
The task is no less than to reclaim economics for humanities.
If Coleridge, Shelley, Scott and the others are looking down from Parnassus they would surely agree, and beg us to pay attention”.- John Ramsden in his introduction to The Poets’ Guide to Economics
Without humanity, economics is a house of cards built on shifting sands.
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