Licence to be Bad
Author: Aldred, Jonathan
ISBN: 9780141986951
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is good
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 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 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.
ISBN: 9780141986951
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is good
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 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 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.
