作者：AbhijitBanerjee/EstherDuflo
出版社：PublicAffairs
副标题：ARadicalRethinkingoftheWaytoFightGlobalPoverty
出版年：2011-4-26
页数：320
定价：USD26.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781586487980
内容简介
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Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award
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 principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low.
This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty.
Learn more at www.pooreconomics.com
作者简介
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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including most recently the inaugural Infosys Prize in 2009, and has been an honorary advisor to many organizations including the World Bank and the Government of India.
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. She is a recipient of the MacArthur “genius” award (2009) and the John Bates Clark medal awarded annually to the best American economist under forty (2012). In 2003, Banerjee and Duflo cofounded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which they continue to direct.
目录
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Foreword vii
1 Think Again, Again 1
Part I Private Lives
2 A Billion Hungry People? 19
3 Low-Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health? 41
4 Top of the Class 71
5 PakSudarno’s Big Family 103
Part II Institutions
6 Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers 133
7 The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple Economics of Lending to the Poor 157
8 Saving Brick by Brick 183
9 Reluctant Entrepreneurs 205
10 Policies, Politics 235
In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion 267
Acknowledgments 275
Notes 277
Index 295
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a very intriguing and insightful read that challenges the common narrative of the poor and how policies/politics work in the developing country. It’s the lazy and formulaic thinking that stops us nurt…
A very accessible book about development economics, and of economics in general. Also provides useful tips on our own lives, albeit perhaps unintentionally.
5月10
本书的最大贡献在于帮助我们了解穷人的心理，为政策的失败提供了本土化的心理路径解释。两位实验经济学家今年喜提诺奖，让人为这一方法感到振奋。但是这可能导致发展心理学领域非实验文章不能发表，客观上增加了经费支出，也夸大了这一方法实际适用的问题范畴。实际上，RCT方法只能解释某一有限群体的决策，重复性也不高，更难说应用到国家层面的决策。本书对于贫穷对于疾病、教育等等方面的影响都有故事样的论述，既显示出这个…
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