Poor Economics

Poor Economics is making waves … refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful … an entirely new perspective * Guardian *A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty – Amartya SenIt has been years since I read a book that taught me so much – Steven D. LevittA page-turner about the micro-economics of aid policy might not sound too probable, but that’s what [Banerjee and Duflo] have written, and it is a truly remarkable book … unmistakably contemporary, written beautifully * Guardian *A compelling and important read * Forbes *An engrossing new book * Economist *Marvellous … they deserve to be congratulated, and to be read * Wall Street Journal *

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of many awards, including 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 Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT. She has received numerous honors and prizes including a John Bates Clark Medal for the best American economist under 40 in 2010, a MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellowship in 2009. Together with Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard University, she founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2003.