Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day

ISBN-13: 9780718193669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str.

Esther Duflo

Opis

Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day.

Recenzje

Poor Economics is making waves . . . refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective Guardian

O autorze

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. He has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers and has served on the U.N. Secretary-General's panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Infosys Prize, the Dan David Prize, a John Bates Clark Medal, and a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship.