Angrynomics

Outline

Angrynomics (2020) explores why so many people around the world feel angry about the economy and politics. Written as a conversation, Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth distinguish between healthy moral outrage and the tribal anger that divides societies, and trace today’s frustration to financial crises, stagnant wages, and insecurity. They propose practical economic ideas for reducing inequality and restoring a sense of fairness.

• Angrynomics asks why so many people around the world feel angry about the economy and politics.
• The authors separate healthy moral outrage from the tribal anger that divides societies.
• Financial crises, stagnant wages and insecurity are traced as the roots of today's frustration.
• The book is written as a conversation between Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth.
• The authors propose practical economic ideas to reduce inequality and restore a sense of fairness.

Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth combine experience in finance and political economy. Lonergan is a British economist and fund manager who writes about monetary policy and economics. Blyth is a Scottish-American political economist and professor at Brown University, known for his book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Together they wrote Angrynomics.