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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an economist and writer, presently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, and a Founder and Co-Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He shares the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, for their tremendous work in helping to develop an innovative and experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Their fieldwork has impacted public policy and guided successful transformations in development economics - their methods increasingly regarded the standard. Through the diversity in his writing, such works as Good Economics for Hard Times and Cooking to Save Your Life, Banerjee demonstrates an ever-innovative, multidisciplinary and deeply compelling approach to life’s near infinite questions.
