Good Economics for Hard Times

<p>RSA chief executive <a href="https://twitter.com/rsamatthew">Matthew Taylor</a> and journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/mrianleslie">Ian Leslie</a> are joined by this year's winner of the Nobel prize for economics (shared with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), <strong>Esther Duflo</strong>.</p><p>Duflo is co-author of <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305/305539/good-economics-for-hard-times/9780241306895.html"><i>Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems</i></a> and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, where she is co-director of the Poverty Action Lab.</p><p>In this wide-ranging interview she makes the case for how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our times.</p><p>Produced by James Shield.</p><p>Brought to you by the RSA.</p>