"A treasure trove of insight" (The Economist) from 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.

In this revolutionary book, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo, build on cutting-edge research to understand our broken world anew. Original, provocative, and with an urgent new preface, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and the creation of a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand how precariously balanced our world truly is for most of the people living in it.