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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Theory, Axiom Business Book Awards"
"The real argument of the book comes in the second half, namely that a set of radical but feasible policies holds the solution to inequality. And, if they were implemented, Sandbu eloquently argues, more globalisation would benefit all and defang populist polarisation."
---Diane Coyle, Financial Times"[A] brilliant, if sometimes controversial, exposition of what ails our economies and political systems."
---Chris Johns, Irish Times"
The Economics of Belonging is a competent, confidently articulated survey of the academic economics literature on inequality."
---Paul Collier, Prospect"This is a crisply written analysis of economic discontents and their political consequences. Though written in the pre-pandemic era, the conclusions and prescriptions of this book are very relevant to our current debates."
---Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times"A wealth of analysis and insight [in] a few hundred pages."
---Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters Breakingviews"Sophisticated and engaging. . . . Thorough and compelling."
---Paolo Mauro, Finance & Development"
The Economics of Belonging is an important contribution to the debate about the ‘left-behind’. Sandbu offers a highly readable and carefully argued narrative, which marshals evidence adroitly and proposes a range of policy prescriptions, many of which are persuasive and deserve serious attention."
---John Tomaney, LSE Review of Books"One of Sandbu’s great strengths is his ability to combine analysis of microeconomic welfare policy with macroeconomic and financial policy. . . . An important achievement of this book is to show that many measures both reduce inequality and improve productivity and growth."
---Paul Segal, Journal of Economic Inequality
