Kaushik Basu, David Rosenblatt and Claudia Sepúlveda (eds), The state of economics, the state of the world, MIT Press, 2019, 552 pages

This book is long, and was published before the onset of the coronavirus, but it remains relevant for what it tells us about the state of economics. We are exceptionally unfortunate to be simultaneously confronted by climate change and the pandemic, both global phenomena. One is immediate in its effect, and the other largely still a threat necessitating prompt