Esther Duflo (MIT) gives the 15th Barcelona Economics lecture of the Barcelona GSE Research Network on January 14, 2009. The talk is titled "Fighting Poverty Effectively: Creating Experimentation in Development Economics.
We have 2000 years of capital accumulation and related institutional culture in the developed world, and we're trying to replicate that in underdeveloped regions in a much shorter timeframe. I am skeptical about history's direct relevance to this novel problem.
good one.
katheryncruz24 2 months ago
Yes, good writing. There needs to be some serious reform. Lets play the Philosophy video game.
tnguyen318 1 year ago
We have 2000 years of capital accumulation and related institutional culture in the developed world, and we're trying to replicate that in underdeveloped regions in a much shorter timeframe. I am skeptical about history's direct relevance to this novel problem.
hymnofashes 1 year ago