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Bill Sloman
Guest
Jim Thompson might like it - both of the authors are professors at
MIT.
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo have written a book on measuring
what goes in low-income countries.
The title is "Poor Economics", the ISBN 978-0-71819-366-9 and the
conclusions are based on field work - quite a bit of it involving
randomised controlled trials.
A lot of the subject matter is about the behaviour of the poor, which
James Arthur and krw tell us about at every opportunity, not that they
seem to know much - their ideas don't seem to have much to do with the
evidence-based economics presented in this book, or the kind of
factual data assembled in a less-poor city - Melbourne, Australia - in
the 1960's by the Melbourne poverty research project.
Since it is about facts, right-wing nitwits presumably won't like it.
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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
MIT.
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo have written a book on measuring
what goes in low-income countries.
The title is "Poor Economics", the ISBN 978-0-71819-366-9 and the
conclusions are based on field work - quite a bit of it involving
randomised controlled trials.
A lot of the subject matter is about the behaviour of the poor, which
James Arthur and krw tell us about at every opportunity, not that they
seem to know much - their ideas don't seem to have much to do with the
evidence-based economics presented in this book, or the kind of
factual data assembled in a less-poor city - Melbourne, Australia - in
the 1960's by the Melbourne poverty research project.
Since it is about facts, right-wing nitwits presumably won't like it.
--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen