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Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience
From the abstract of ‘Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh’, November 24, 2020: There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or … Continue reading
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Tagged astrology, attentional space, Ayurveda, cognitive function, faith-based medicine, intelligence, IQ, John Henryism, phytotherapy, Poverty, poverty trap, pseudoscience, scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan, traditional medicine
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