我是个很有远见的人,一向为生活作长远打算。为防止日后流落街头,我读了《贫穷的本质》,想知道贫穷到底是怎么一回事。即便以后我穷得只能捡垃圾吃,也能知道自己出了什么问题。这本书是美国麻省理工大学两位经济学教授阿比吉特·班纳吉和埃斯特·迪弗洛花费十五年时间,在五大洲最贫穷地区作调查得来的成果。他们寻求的问题跟我一样——贫穷是怎么来的?他们作了若干调查后得出的结论之一是:你穷,是因为你的父母很穷。富人的孩子越富,穷人的孩子越穷,这毋庸置疑,但问题并不 I am a very far-sighted person and have always planned for my life. To prevent the future from going down the street, I read “The Essence of Poverty” and wondered what it means to be poor. Even after I was so poor I could only pick up rubbish, but also know what’s wrong with myself. This book is the result of a survey conducted by two economic economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Abigaton Banner and Esther DeFullo, for 15 years in the poorest regions of the five continents. They ask the same questions as me - how did poverty come from? One of the conclusions they made after some investigations was that you were poor because your parents were poor. The more wealthy children, the poorer children, the poorest, no doubt, but the problem is not