Abstract:
This book is written by Abhijit V. Banerjee who is Ford Foundation International Professor of
Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Esther Duflo who is Abdul Latif Jameel
Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For their exceptional work on poverty alleviation they were
awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Description:
Book Review - Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good economics for hard times: Better answers to our biggest problems, London: Penguin Books Ltd (Imprint: Allen Lane), 2019, 416 pp., ISBN: 139780241306895, £17.99 (hbk)