How long does it take to read Good Economics for Hard Times?
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2019. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.
Subjects: Economics, labor, tax, growth, politics, immigration