Abhijit V. Banerjee
Praise for Poor Economics
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
Economist
A page-turner about the micro-economics of aid policy might not sound too probable, but that's what [Banerjee and Duflo] have written, and it is a truly remarkable book . . . unmistakably contempora ...
Guardian
It is the rich and humane portrayal of the lives of the very poor that most impresses. [The authors] show how those in poverty make sophisticated calculations in the grimmest of circumstances … Book ...
Financial Times
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
Economist
A page-turner about the micro-economics of aid policy might not sound too probable, but that's what [Banerjee and Duflo] have written, and it is a truly remarkable book . . . unmistakably contempora ...
Guardian
It is the rich and humane portrayal of the lives of the very poor that most impresses. [The authors] show how those in poverty make sophisticated calculations in the grimmest of circumstances … Book ...
Financial Times
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
Economist
A page-turner about the micro-economics of aid policy might not sound too probable, but that's what [Banerjee and Duflo] have written, and it is a truly remarkable book . . . unmistakably contempora ...
Guardian
It is the rich and humane portrayal of the lives of the very poor that most impresses. [The authors] show how those in poverty make sophisticated calculations in the grimmest of circumstances … Book ...
Financial Times