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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning....

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalisation and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change - these are sources of great anxiety across the world. The resources to address these challenges are there - what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us.

In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

Wirtschaftsnobelpreis 2019! Zwei preisgekrönte Ökonomen über Versagen und Verantwortung der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Ungleichheit, Armut, Migration, freier Handel, Wirtschaftswachstum und Umweltfragen sind die Probleme, die weltweit täglich die Schlagzeilen beherrschen. Hierzu wären Wissen und Rat von Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern dringend gefragt. Die für ihre bahnbrechenden Arbeiten zur Armutsforschung bekannten Ökonomen Esther Duflo und Abhijit Banerjee halten in diesem Buch ihren Kollegen provokant den Spiegel vor.