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How Three Local Nobel Prize Winners Think About Poverty In 2020
All three of the 2019 Nobel Prize winners in Economics live in Boston. They won the prize for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." We talk the policy implications of their work, and think about poverty in the U.S:
- MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who co-founded MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Their latest book is "Good Economics for Hard Times." Duflo is the second woman and youngest person to ever win the prize.
- Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer.
This segment aired on February 28, 2020.
