The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...

Abhijit Banerjee, a Nobel laureate for economics, is celebrated globally for his groundbreaking work on poverty alleviation, ...

Thaler worked hard to keep the book to a manageable length, which unfortunately meant skipping over some other interesting topics, such as applications to development policy in, for example, Abhijit ...