Poor Economics
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel laureates on what randomized trials reveal about poverty: why the poor make the choices they do about food, health, schooling, savings. Humble and specific.
Read it if…
you want evidence rather than ideology on poverty.
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Skip it if…
you want a grand theory.
Try instead: Good Economics for Hard Times →
Three things you will actually use
- Small frictions have large effects.
- Test interventions.
- Respect the logic of the poor.
Do this first
Read the chapter on health.
Our verdict
Poverty, tested.
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