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Elie Hassenfeld
Guest on The Ezra Klein Show
Products they talk about
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity👍 Recommends
…final book recommendations for audience
“And then finally, a book called Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo. She spent years in Anawati. It's an informal urban settlement, sometimes known as a slum near the Mumbai airport. And it just paints a very vivid picture of what life is like in poverty.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
Factfulness: And How to Be Wrong About the World Less Often👍 Recommends
…final book recommendations for audience
“One is Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to the world. It's, say, the core argument of the book is something like in order to prioritize correctly, we need to understand the world accurately.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty👍 Recommends
…final book recommendations for audience
“Second book, Poor Economics by Esther Dufflo and Abhijit Banerjee. They're two of the founding members of this randomized controlled trial movement in development economics. And this book gives an overview of their work and the ideas behind this work.”
on The Ezra Klein Show