Angrynomics / Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lonergan, Eric, author.

Blyth, Mark, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Economics--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

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 ever more expensive. In <i>Angrynomics</i>, Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and ill-targeted, and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world. <i>Angrynomics</i> is for anyone wondering, where the hell do we go from here?

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jan 2024).

ISBN:

9781788212809 (e-book)

9781788212786 (hbk.)

9781788212793 (pbk.)