Poor Economics

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

AvAbhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective' GuardianWhy would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television?Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar?Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?This eye-opening 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. Looking at some of the most paradoxical aspects of life below the poverty line - why the poor need to borrow in order to save, why incentives that seem effective to us may not be for them, and why, despite being more risk-taking than high financiers, they start businesses but rarely grow them - Banerjee and Duflo offer a new understanding of the surprising way the world really works.Winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-29
Mått:131 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt:238 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780718193669

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Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Esther Duflo, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the Infosys Prize (2014), the Dan David Prize (2013), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009).

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To cut to the chase: this is the best book about the lives of the poor that I have read for a very, very long time

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Boken är av typen 'populariserad' facklitteratur. Tillgänglig Intressant även för icke-ekonomer som vill orientera sig på området. Fick själv boken rekommenderad av en doktorand i nationalekonomi. Som så ofta har man en del nya frågor i bakhuvudet efter läsningen, vilket förstås är stimulerande.
Homer
11 mars 2022