Publisher: Penguin, 2021, 377 pages
ISBN: 978-1-847-94275-3
Keywords: Macroeconomics
Low taxes promote economic growth.
The best way to cut oil consumption is to raise prices.
Government regulation stifles entrepreneurship.
Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into eight mantras widely accepted by Western governments and, by talking to the people who promote those ideas — and the workers, businesspeople and consumers, who have felt their impacts, — finds they often don't play out as expected.
Smart, funny and incisive, Free Lunch Thinking is essential reading for anyone who really wants to know how economies tick — and why they often don't.