Recension of 'Economics for the Common Good', by Jean Tirole

Economics for the Common Good is a very interesting book for the teaching of Public Economics, from which to arouse debates, encourage exercises and illustrate class contents. Its author, Tirole, a Nobel laureate in 2014, has written an extensive text addressing many of the current challenges and some of the deepest doubts the Economy and economists experience in their academic and social performance. He does so with an easy and rigorous language based on the analysis of the regulation and the organizations he has investigated. However, the work lacks a common thread that allows a systematic joint reading and to contrast its two starting points: where we are in the pursuit of the common good and if the Economy helps achieve it. In any case, its pages invite to question the prevailing intuitions and prejudices in the debate of the public agenda. So it would be a suitable instrument in the strategies of active and deep learning, some of which are summarized in this review.