Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyThe 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-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor. |
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Comentário do usuário - PDCRead - LibraryThingFor anyone who has read The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs then this is another book that you should read. The authors are both Professors at MIT, Banerjee is economics and Duflo is Poverty ... Ler resenha completa
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Comentário do usuário - nosajeel - LibraryThingThis book deserves all the acclaim it has gotten, it is a modern take on development economics that eschews the grand macroeconomic theorizing and debates of Jeff Sachs, Bill Easterly, and Daron ... Ler resenha completa
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Esther Duflo Visualização parcial - 2011 |
Poor Economics: rethinking poverty & the ways to end it Abhijit V Banerjee,Esther Duflo Não há visualização disponível - 2011 |
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Abhijit Banerjee,Esther Duflo Não há visualização disponível - 2012 |
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