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Poverty
An annotated collection of 2 books on poverty, spanning 2011 to 2013. Featuring works by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo, Sendhil Mullainathan — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo, 2011 · PublicAffairs
Banerjee and Duflo, later joint Nobel laureates, wrote the book that argued development economics had been asking the wrong question: not "what policies work" at the country level, but "what works for whom, under what co…
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, 2013 · Times Books / Henry Holt
A behavioral economist and a cognitive psychologist demonstrate that scarcity — of any resource — produces a measurable, involuntary cognitive state: heightened focus on the scarce resource at the cost of everything else…