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

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
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From the Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the Nobel Prize in Economics 2019, along with economist Michael Kremer, for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". READ MORE

Two practical visionaries 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 tby Abhijit Banerjee (Author), Esther Duflo (Author)hese 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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