Going by the evidence
In their enthusiastic advocacy of cash transfers in developing countries, the authors look away from inconvenient evidence.
Economists are not known for their timing or predictions. However, the release of could not be better timed, given the recent award of the Nobel prize to its two authors. Approbative cover blurbs from Raghuram Rajan and Thomas Piketty set the expectations even higher. And the book meets those expectations. One should read it not only for a very insightful review of contemporary economic research but
