'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern
debates about economics, politics, and society' Ha Joon Chang,
author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Over the
past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has
changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents'
generation might have seemed stupid, harmful or simply wicked now
seems rational, natural, woven into the very logic of things. And,
asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revelatory new book, it's economics
that's to blame. Licence to be Bad tells the story of how a group
of economics theorists changed our world, and how a handful of key
ideas, from free-riding to Nudge, seeped into our decision-making
and, indeed, almost all aspects of our lives. Aldred reveals the
extraordinary hold of economics on our morals and values. Economics
has corrupted us. But if this hidden transformation is so recent,
it can be reversed. Licence to be Bad shows us where to begin. Over
the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right'
has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents'
generation might have seemed stupid, harmful or simply wicked now
seems rational, natural, woven into the very logic of things. And,
asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revelatory new book, it's economics
that's to blame. Licence to be Bad tells the story of how a group
of economics theorists changed our world, and how a handful of key
ideas, from free-riding to Nudge, seeped into our decision-making
and, indeed, almost all aspects of our lives. Aldred reveals the
extraordinary hold of economics on our morals and values. Economics
has corrupted us. But if this hidden transformation is so recent,
it can be reversed. Licence to be Bad shows us where to begin.
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