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... and http://temcnally.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-28T10_12_36-07_00

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