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 with Brian Holsopple (Narrator)

11 hours, 30 minutes first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative slow-paced

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Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at wors...

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