Thanks for passing this along, Yaw. My copy's about to be in the mail. If nothing else, I suspect that reading a book by economists doing actual fieldwork carries lessons for anybody else trying to do real action/activist research in a discipline that typically avoids it. (I'd at least count HCI.)
s. On Monday, June 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Yaw Anokwa wrote: > mit economists abhijit banerjee and esther duflo (of the poverty > action lab) do randomized control trials in poor communities and have > some great insights on global development. they've just published a > book (http://pooreconomics.com) that will likely be interesting to the > people on this list. > > there are also a series of interviews online that give you a taste of > their work at > http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/08/137041672/the-tuesday-podcast-poor-economics > and http://temcnally.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-28T10_12_36-07_00 > > yaw > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu (mailto:change at change.washington.edu) > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20110613/3bd7d119/attachment.html>
