The Economists' Hour
| Company type | Book |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | September 2019 |
| Founder | Binyamin Appelbaum |
| Products | Non-fiction book |
| Parent | Little, Brown and Company |
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society is a work authored by Binyamin Appelbaum, an editorial writer for the New York Times, and was released by Little, Brown and Company in September 2019. The book examines the historical expansion of economists' impact on governmental policy decisions.
Reception
The Economist praised the book for its investigative style in detailing how economists influenced policy, particularly endorsing nearly twenty years of tax reductions beginning in the 1960s and deregulation efforts starting in the 1970s.
Additional critiques appeared in publications such as The Boston Globe and The Atlantic, among others.
In 2019, the title achieved status as a business bestseller according to the Wall Street Journal and earned the Porchlight Business Book Award in the Narrative and Biography category.