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
读的时候很激动，写出来后很枯燥。。欢迎拍砖 Professor Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo performed randomized controlled trials (RCT) for aid programs and published the results in the fascinating book Poor Economics (2011). They explain how programs work an...
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【本想花一个小时翻一下，因为书名关系人的切身利益，花了更多时间摘录和发挥一下。整本书沿袭了老美畅销书的风格，很水，但也有一些道理值得学习。书中的贫穷多指的印度，非洲等赤贫的人们，但道理并不仅限于此】 从国家层面讲，贫穷是最大的人才浪费。无数人的潜能被贫困浪...
评分通过案例中的数据对比分析说明，穷人怎样利用手中有限的资源和为什么有时候援助没成效。 1.贫穷陷阱。当收入低于一定水平时，穷人没钱去获取信息，例如买报纸。那么穷人将很难了解到一些常识，根据常识去做出正确的判断。2.越穷说明资源越有限，那么作出正确的判断就更加重要，...
用户评价
由宏大叙事堆砌起来的悲观主义，是智识与职业上的屈服和妥协；由big word包装起来的深刻性，更是一种不费力气的懒惰和肤浅。惨淡经营的比较研究，针对具体问题的实证分析，不辞劳苦的田野调查，本书作者所倡导和实践的这些治学态度与方法，正是我在之后的会计学习中最为需要的。切忌空谈义理，这很重要。
评分#翻书党# 援助有用吗？应该免费还是收一点钱？在什么领域效果比较好，医疗、教育、还是保险？回答这些问题，要靠实验数据。不仅是新的研究方法，很多结论也冲击了现有的研究结论，从而刷新了发展经济学关于现实政策的讨论。另外，一方面是是信心满满RCT，另一方面是狐疑多多有效性。例如2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主Deaton对RCT的反驳就很精彩。不过我自己反正从中学到不少东西。不管学界争议如何，这书写得很好，有引人入胜的小故事，然后引出要解决的问题。然后这对夫妻档作者提出自己如何用研究来测这个问题的解决方式，最后是提供建议。学界有人要写畅销书的话，这个模式值得学习。
评分非常清晰，非常有趣~主要研究方法是RCT。
评分Attend to the details, and learn how people make decisions. That's the most useful lesson I learnt from this book.
评分recess week补之前欠下的债~highly informative and inspirational!
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