Poor Economics
the surprising truth about life on less than $1 a day
$25.51
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2026
Summary
Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty & The Ways We Fight It
FULLY UPDATED EDITION WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS
From the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?
This eye-opening book overtur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837312405 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1837312400 |
| Author: | Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
About The Author
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Abhijit V. Banerjee (Author)
Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Esther Duflo (Author)
Esther Duflo, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the Infosys Prize (2014), the Dan David Prize (2013), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009).
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