The rat analogy comes from modern economics, a discipline that classes itself as lab science, precious and pure.

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Different is exactly the approach Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, economists and co-founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), take in Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty.

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