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

from rivkat

Interesting summary of what we know (and don't) about how poor people make decisions. Poor people are people! So they behave like people under resource constraints; when it comes to healthcare, that also includes information constraints (not really knowing much about vaccination, for example, inc...

from PDCRead

For 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 Alleviation. Even though it is a book about the economics of the poor around the world, it is not a high b...

from addunn3

Authors review and research the economics of the poor who make less than 99 cents a day.

from jcbrunner

"Poor economics" puts a poor title and subtitle on a good book. The book isn't really "about a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty". It could have been if its conclusion had been its starting point. Applying the concepts of the dismal science on the lives of the poor (mostly in ...

from RajivC

This book is excellent. Most of us in countries like India claim to know about poverty. It is impossible for us to appreciate poor people's concerns, aspirations, and dreams. We don't live their lives nor interact with them, save at a superficial level. Experts who remain aloof from the problem o...