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.
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.
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Poor Economics 的标题双关了本书的要点:首先,这是一本关于穷人(the poor)的经济学著作:关于他们的约束、困境、动机以及选择;其次,这是一本有关贫穷的经济学著作:贫困的原因,以及我们如何对抗贫困。 作者质疑了大众或者说学者与政策制定者对待“穷人”脱离实际的刻板...
评分现代城市最大的阴影,莫过于触目惊心的贫穷现象。 《金融时报》曾经做过一期关于贫民窟的专题,封面照片选择了里约热内卢(巴西的前首都),贫民窟占据了整个山坡,犹如一幅巨大的破布。 消除贫穷,这不仅是一个道德问题,更是关乎城市发展的神话是否可持续的问题。自从城市...
评分我是个很有远见的人,一向为生活做长远打算。为防止日后流落街头,我读了《贫穷的本质》,想知道贫穷到底是怎么一回事。即便以后我穷得只能捡垃圾吃,也知道自己出了什么问题。这本书是美国麻省理工大学两位经济学教授阿比吉特·班纳吉和埃斯特·迪弗洛花费十五年时间,在五大...
评分2012年11月起,一个名叫《为什么贫穷》的8集纪录片在全球70多家电视台播出(虽然中国大陆还没有电视台播出,但你也可以在搜狐视频中看到)。在纪录片中,人们回顾和探讨了贫穷的历史、贫穷与生死、贫穷与全球化、贫穷与教育等问题。当时间已经进入21世纪,物质文明得到空前发展...
评分Poor Economics 的标题双关了本书的要点:首先,这是一本关于穷人(the poor)的经济学著作:关于他们的约束、困境、动机以及选择;其次,这是一本有关贫穷的经济学著作:贫困的原因,以及我们如何对抗贫困。 作者质疑了大众或者说学者与政策制定者对待“穷人”脱离实际的刻板...
了解贫穷最好的入门书
评分Time inconsistency
评分其实呢,飞机上没有小电视,也是有好处的…
评分俩经济学家很努力地跑到农村去做实验跟人聊天,理解穷人在风险,储蓄,政治,家庭,教育,医疗,保险种种mindset和practice的书。经济学家过去那么多项目啊政策啊怎么就成了笑话呢?原来穷人过的真不容易啊!
评分比之前看的Dead Aid更全面,对援助悲观主义者和乐观主义者的两类主张都有回应。作者的风格特别平实,态度很务实,反复强调之前的学者没有数据说个毛线,极端案例不能作为大众的代表。全书主要是帮助理解穷人做决策的逻辑,表示穷人的决策虽然可能不正确但都是理性的决策。要全面理解穷人的生活状态,把援助要送到刀口上才有用。然后我最近越来越觉得UN好假大空啊怎么办。
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