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Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther

In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a "rich and humane" (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children fro...

Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of ...

Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther

Para entender la economía de los más desfavorecidos y luchar contra la pobreza, Duflo y Banerjee acudieron directamente a los protagonistas. Este es el relato apasionante, rompedor y visionario que les valió el Nobel. ¿Por qué compra una televisión quien no tiene suficiente para comer? Michael Kremer. ¿Qué lleva a los pobres a dejar pasar las campañas de vacunación gratuita y ...

Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo / Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther

¿Cómo se vive con menos de un dólar al día? ¿Por qué los microcréditos resultan útiles pero no son el milagro que algunos esperaban? ¿Por qué los pobres dejan pasar las campañas de vacunación gratuita pero pagan por medicinas que a menudo no necesitan? ¿Por qué sus hijos pueden ir a la escuela año tras año y no aprender nada? ¿Por qué no siempre invierten en obtener más caloría...

Banerjee, Abhijit

Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these...

Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther

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, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called "marvelous, rewarding," the authors tell how the stress of l...