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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty [Hardcover] (Reprint Edition) by Esther Banerjee Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 1-61039-093-8 / 1610390938 ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-093-4 / 9781610390934 The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In |