Poor Economics - The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day

About the author

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. He has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers and has served on the U.N. Secretary-General's panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Infosys Prize, the Dan David Prize, a John Bates Clark Medal, and a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship.

Product details

• Authors: Abhijit V Banerjee, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Duflo Esther
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 27.11.2025
• EAN: 9781837312405
• ISBN: 978-1-83731-240-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, macroeconomics, Poverty & unemployment, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty and precarity