Understanding Poverty

Abhijit Banerjee

Dilip Mookherjee

Roland Benabou

Ebsco Publishing

<p>Is opening up to international trade good for everybody? Do immigrants from poorer countries take away jobs from low-income native workers? Why is inequality exploding everywhere? Does redistribution actually undermine incentives? Should we worry about the rise of artificial intelligence or celebrate it? How do we manage the trade-off between growth and climate change? Is economic growth over in the West? Should we care? Figuring out how to deal with today s critical economic problems is the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel, perhaps even than curing cancer what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life and, perhaps, of liberal democracy itself. We have the resources to solve these problems; what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. Only if we can engage seriously in this quest, and if the best minds in the world work with governments and civil society to redesign our social programs for effectiveness and political viability, will history remember our era with gratitude. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics, explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent,G ood Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for intelligent interventions toward a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary book, one that will help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.</p>

Good Economics for Hard Times : Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Esther Duflo

Juggernaut

<p>Poverty and income distribution in India, first published in 1974, brought together the global who’s who of poverty research of that time. But over the years, out of print, this important book had essentially vanished from library collections around the world. With four new essays by the present editors and one by the economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, which reflect on the shifts in Perspective that have taken place in the decades gone by, this updated volume is an essential reference. ‘This book achieves a dual role; it recognises... Giants of the past, and through editing and the inclusion of new papers, provides a bridge to and a handbook for the future.’ Angus de at on, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics ‘important to read this treasure trove.’ Arvind Subramanian.</p>

Poverty and income distribution in India

Business & Money

Chhaunk On Food, Economics And Society

Cheyenne Olivier

Good Economics for Hard Times (Chinese Edition)

Self-Help

Time Management

Chun Shan Chu Ban

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