Here are a few of the blogs and articles we have been reading this week:
- Has Muhammad Yunus been a more influential intellectual than Richard Dawkins and Paul Krugman? Tyler Cowen on which intellectuals have influence.
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Poverty is becoming a crime, almost literally.
- Foreign Policy on culture matters, but it changes faster than you think.
- David Roodman blogs about: Working Papers ARE Working---And Will Work Better If They Show Their Work.
- A scientific study from the World Bank’s David Mckenzie and Berk Ozler: The impact of economics blogs.
Editors’ Note: Hi, Laura and Jonathan here. A few of the pieces this week come from people who spent years up close with how poor households actually handle money, and keep coming back with something more tangled than the story usually told, and more persistent. Tim will be back for the next edition. - Laura Freschi and Jonathan Morduch