Posts Tagged ‘Martin Ravallion’

Hunger makes people work harder — yeah right!

Friday, July 19th, 2013

There is no better way to channel the mind-bending logic of 18th century thinkers on poverty (men who we can assume were not poor themselves, by virtue of the fact that history remembers them) than to simply quote their words. Meet Philippe Hecquet, a well-known French doctor speaking in 1740: The poor … are like Read more