Quotes About Abhijit Banerjee

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.