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 Angrynomics, 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. Angrynomics is for anyone wondering, where the hell do we go from here?
Table of Content
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
Postscript: angrynomics in a pandemic
Conclusions
About the author
Mark Blyth is the William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics at Brown University. He is the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (2013/2015).
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