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Poor Economics the age of dread In Act Like You GotIn this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a rich and humane (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children from poor families attend school but fail to learn anything? In Poor Economics,