Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee

320 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative slow-paced

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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-sa...

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