Poor economics : barefoot hedge-fund managers, DIY doctors and the surprising truth about life on less than $1 a day
Banerjee, Abhijit V.2012
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Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day.
Main title:
Poor economics : barefoot hedge-fund managers, DIY doctors and the surprising truth about life on less than $1 a day / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2012.
Collation:
xi, 303 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780718193669 (pbk)
Dewey class:
339.460917339.46091724
Language:
English
BRN:
152917
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