Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019
Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020
Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019

Extreme Economies is a revelation - and a must-read. Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England

To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From death-row prisoners trading in institutions where money is banned to flourishing entrepreneurs in the worlds largest refugee camp, from the unrealised...