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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自打贫穷一出现,我们就产生了某种以约定俗成的方式来贬低穷人的冲动。他们被描述的有时懒惰、有时上进、有时高尚、有时鬼祟、有时愤怒、有时顺从、有时无助、有时自强。而实质上,这些对他们的看法无助于帮助那些处于贫穷状态下的普通男女实现希望、消除疑惑、弥补不足、满足...
评分读的时候很激动,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...
评分这本书研究了穷人面对饥饿、疾病、教育、人口等一系列问题时的行为和选择,并且分析了小额贷款、存款、创业、选举等方面对穷人进行政策倾斜所产生的效果和局限。 书中有一个结论很有意思:人们都有自制力差、时间不耐(宁有一鸟在手,不愿众鸟在林)、懒惰等毛病,并且穷人只...
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...
其实呢,飞机上没有小电视,也是有好处的…
评分这是另一套经济学,当贫穷直逼人性,物欲的各种底线像青筋突兀。
评分了解贫穷最好的入门书
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A better piece as a life-style reading than most life-style books themselves - think of your daily choices as investments.
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