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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这本书,我读的很慢,在读的过程中,也不断转换地点。 从深圳机场,到上海,从上海到绍兴的火车上,绍兴,最终读完,是在兰亭曲水流觞亭。 那段时间游人不多,也不吵嚷,我得以在安静的环境也,读完。 读完,心情沉重。 这不是一本读起来舒服的书,但是,有用。 揭示真相、...
评分这本书读的很沉重,很多事当你要拨开重重迷雾,企图看到本质的时候,过程总是异常的残忍。不知为什么联想起了张纯如的自杀,现实太过残酷。作者试图通过对各个方面的剖析来告诉我们贫穷是如何造成的,从穷人自身、教育、生育、环境、政治、体质等方面出发,读来实在无法感觉轻...
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...
评分一、穷人缺乏有效的避险工具 1. 穷人会生一堆孩子,但生孩子不是观念落后,而是一种理性思考,因为穷人所在的国家往往没有社会保障体系,想规避养老和医疗风险,只能依靠自己的子女,但是子女身上不确定性太多,或者早夭,或者关系不好,或者没能力养老,穷人往往采取多生几个...
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...
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A very accessible book about development economics, and of economics in general. Also provides useful tips on our own lives, albeit perhaps unintentionally.
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Time inconsistency
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