A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Two practical visionaries upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.
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