THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

This detailed history of how economics swayed public policy during the last 60 years has sentences and conceptual threads that would challenge any voice pro. Narrator Suzie Althens has a pleasing vocal tone and melodic pitch range that any narrator would envy. But occasionally her vocal flourishes and placement of pauses interrupt a sentence or conceptual thread that needs more attuned phrasing. This is an absorbing, illuminating audiobook, a lively retrospective on how the discipline of economics intersected with the politicians who shaped and implemented public policy. It's about the Quants, the math-oriented economists, versus the social progressives, who focus more on the human impact of policy. With the history of economic thinking buzzing throughout, this is top-shelf writing that political junkies will enjoy. T.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2022]