Poor Economics

A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo (2012)

The 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...