One of the Best Economics Books of the Year

The Financial Times
Bloomberg

Excerpt

The Curse of Econ 101,” The Atlantic

Reviews

Economics lecturers, take note: include Kwak’s book on your syllabus and set aside ample time to discuss its arguments in class.

—Martin Sandbu, Financial Times

“Economism” is a very important and timely book, and anyone who is interested in public affairs should pick up a copy and read it.

Noah Smith, Bloomberg

A very good book about how a very large part of the economics profession has failed to get the true message of economics through its own biases and the political and ideological filters.

Brad DeLong

While Economism has succeeded as an idea — the same way the virus in a disaster movie “succeeds” during the inevitable scene where the generals and the CDC show the entire map being overwhelmed by one color — its success in creating a world of shared prosperity is debatable, at best.

—Dustin McKissen, Inc.

Do you know someone who relentlessly says, “It’s just simple economics,” or “It’s just supply and demand?” Give them “Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality.”

—Louis D. Johnson, MinnPost

If ever a book arrived to fill a need, this one has.

—Peter Dorman, EconoSpeak

Media

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