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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

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