Poor Economics - A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. Financial Times / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
| Verlag | Perseus Books |
| Auflage | 2012 |
| Seiten | 303 |
| Format | 20,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 274 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1610390938 |
| EAN | 9781610390934 |
| Bestell-Nr | 61039093UA |
Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics , Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called marvellous, rewarding," the authors tell how the stress of living on less than 99 cents per day encourages the poor to make questionable decisions that feed,not fight,poverty. The result is a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty that offers a ringside view of the lives of the world's poorest, and shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.
Klappentext:
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.
Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.
Rezension:
By the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
