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Angrynomics /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Lonergan, Eric (Author), Blyth, Mark, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing Limited, 2020.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Conclusions: what's been said, what's not, and what we don't want to forget
  • Postscript: angrynomics in a pandemic
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Index.