Angrynomics

Eric Lonergan is a policy economist and author, with over twenty years' experience in financial markets. He is co-author with Mark Blyth of the international bestseller, Angrynomics. He has written extensively on innovations in monetary policy and frequently contributes to the Financial Times. 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).

With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humour, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To their great credit, they also provide creative – and practical – ideas for moving forward.

• Introduction: from economics to angrynomicsDialogue 1 Public anger and the energy of tribesDialogue 2 The moral mobs and their handlersDialogue 3 Macroangrynomics: capitalism as hardware, with crashes and resetsDialogue 4 Microangrynomics: private stressors, uncertainty and riskDialogue 5 Calming the anger: from angrynomics to an economics that works for everyonePostscript: angrynomics in a pandemicConclusions