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​​Join us Monday, Sept. 20, for a conversation with Esther Duflo - Nobel Prize-winning economist - on how we can evaluate social policies to improve citizens’ well-being and protect human dignity through poverty alleviation. 

The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Esther Duflo
Good Economics for Increasingly Uncertain Times
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Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received her PhD in 1990,and the co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes, including the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. In 2011, her book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and has been translated into more than 17 languages. As an esteemed expert in her field, Duflo’s most recent book, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, highlights solutions to economic issues facing societies around the world. Duflo is also the editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

This is an event for the Ross community and other invited guests. Registration is not required.