具体描述
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
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.
目录信息
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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读后感
一直以来，深感自己有很多思维方式是“穷人”的，并不是说好、或者不好，而是，没搞清这些思维的原因，可能会阻碍自己做出更好的选择。所以，前段时间弄了一本《贫穷的本质》看，有些收获，简记如下，提一句，书里对贫穷的定义是每天收入小于0.99美元的人群，全球有10亿，这是...
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...
评分穷人经济学与变革政治学 范仄 说明：此文发于《21世纪经济报道》http://www.21cbh.com/HTML/2013-6-1/1NMTM5XzY5NzY1Nw.html。由于篇幅有限，很多地方点到为止，过一阵子再推出扩展板。 核心提示：穷人很难，理解和消除贫穷似乎更难。 我们都是“晋惠帝” 中国古代...
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...
评分用户评价
Rigorously empirical and very inspirational. Could even be used as a guideline on 'making your academic research understandable to common people'. J-PAL sounds incredibly appealing now. | 一个月之后就到JPAL工作了 人生如梦啊盆友们
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。
评分其实我觉得经济学这种东西，大多数时候理论只是理论。
评分发人深省，穷人脱离贫困线需要与周遭事物进行漫长地斗争。这其中既有主观意识能动性地缺乏，又有制度的不平衡。而我们能所作的，是用极度的耐心与细心，切身实际的制定法规，与时间，与人的意识糅合。脱贫致富，想来这件事还是需从长计议啊！
评分非常通俗易懂, 带有很多很多案例和实例的采访，很好的书。Recomend!
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