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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2012.Description: xi, 303 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780718193669 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.46091724 23
LOC classification:
  • HC59.7 .B323 2012
Awards:
  • FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 339.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R16887X0499

Originally published: New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011

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