Abhijit Banerjee: Podcast Interviews

Abhijit Banerjee, PhD

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Economist, Author

2 Interviews

Abhijit Banerjee's Interviews

Jeff Schechtman & Abhijit Banerjee + Esther Duflo • 15 Oct 2019 • EN

A Conversation with the Recipients of This Years Nobel Prize in economics: Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee

Beyond the common denominator of poverty what are aspects of the poor that we just don't understand? We've learned that poverty itself creates a different life, a different view of the world. A view that arguably accounts for the fundamental failures of so many well-meaning programs. Why this is, what works and why has

Russ Roberts & Abhijit Banerjee • 11 Jul 2011 • EN

Abhijit Banerjee on Poverty and Poor Economics

Abhijit Banerjee of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Banerjee's book (co-authored with Esther Duflo), Poor Economics. The conversation begins with how randomized control trials (a particular kind of social experiment) have been used to measure the effectiveness of various types of aid to the poor. Banerj