July 1, 2022: India’s first diplomat; Random trials; Wishful thinking

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• habit change
• V.S. Srinivasa Sastri
• Daniel Coyle
• Vineet Thakur
• Abhijit Banerjee
• randomised trials
• FF Insights

The Growth Factor: Why you should invite your competitors to dinner; the inventory dilemma; in MSME financing, do women fare better than men?

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• Abhijit Banerjee
• MSME
• Kaivan Munshi
• social ties in business
• inventory
• women entrepreneurs
• MSME loans

Mainstream economic theories do not fit reality. Two new books, ‘Measuring What Counts’ and ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, provide a counterview: Instead of treating people as data, listen to them, and find answers to their real problems for inclusive, sustainable progress

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• inclusive growth
• Measuring What Counts
• Joseph Stiglitz
• PREMIUM CONTENT
• economic thoery
• Martine Durand
• sustainable growth
• Abhijit Banerjee
• books
• Esther Duflo
• Good Economics for Hard Times
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi