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This masterful book is exemplary in its resistance to sweeping panaceas promoted by socialists, free-market worshippers, and fomenters of academic paranoia about established institutions. Our students and the public need sensible writing about policy choices and governance. This book is devotedly and insistently sensible. -Don Ross, author of Philosophy of Economics This book is both wise and far-ranging. If I was teaching an introductory public policy course, this would be the economics that I would adopt. -Edward Glaeser, Harvard University

US president Harry Truman longed for a one-handed economist, because 'All my economists say 'on one hand' then 'but on the other'.' He was wrong to. Equivocal books do not usually do well in a polarised world. This one deserves to buck the trend. ---Giles Wilkes, Financial Times

""US president Harry Truman longed for a one-handed economist, because 'All my economists say ‘on one hand’ then ‘but on the other’.' He was wrong to. Equivocal books do not usually do well in a polarised world. This one deserves to buck the trend.""---Giles Wilkes, Financial Times

"""US president Harry Truman longed for a one-handed economist, because 'All my economists say ‘on one hand’ then ‘but on the other’.' He was wrong to. Equivocal books do not usually do well in a polarised world. This one deserves to buck the trend.""---Giles Wilkes, Financial Times"

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Diane Coyle is the inaugural Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the UK Council of Economic Advisers and the Natural Capital Committee, as well as a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics. Her books include GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History and The Economics of Enough(both Princeton). Twitter @DianeCoyle1859

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