Poor Economics is on Philanthrocapitalism's Books of the Year list.
News and Events
12/21/2011
Co-author Prof. Duflo was interviewed in the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' periodical, The Region. Interview transcript available here.
12/20/2011
Co-author Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses Poor Economics on the BBC program, Business Daily. Hear it here.
12/19/2011
Poor Economics is on Business World's wish list of books.
12/19/2011
Prof. Duflo takes questions after her presentation at MO*lezing.
12/12/2011
Poor Economics is an Economics and Business Book of the Year on the Economists.
12/12/2011
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing editor at Newsweek, says "Poor Economics" moves "beyond all the bluster of development theories crafted in fancy rooms and actually examines at close range the rational economic decisions made by folks living on less than one dollar each day."
12/12/2011
James Pressley of Bloomberg calls Poor Economics "an enlightening look at what randomized control trials, such as those used to assess new medicines, tell us about the behavior of impoverished people -- and how to help them."