Inflation
A Guide for Users and Losers
$29.93
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
Since the 1970s, there has only been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. This simple story hides a multitude of assumptions about why prices go up and how policymakers can wrestle them back down—assumptions that are often wrong, damaging and have little empirical basis.
Prominent economists Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli reveal why inflation happens, how we combat it and how it affects our…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324134657 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324134658 |
| Author: | Mark Blyth, Nicolò Fraccaroli |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
”[A] brilliant primer about a phenomenon that we thought was behind us but has come back with a vengeance.” – Edward Luce - Financial Times, ‘Best summer books of 2025’
“An essential dose of clear thinking on one of the most contentious issues in economic policy.” – Adam Tooze
Mark Blyth
- Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Nicolò Fraccaroli is an economist at the World Bank and a visiting scholar at Brown University. He lives in Washington, DC.
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