Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-12-16
Books mentioned on The Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money | The Ezra Klein Show
Ellie Hassenfeld recommended Factfulness by Hans Rosling and others, Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and others, and Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo.
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Factfulness
Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund is a nonfiction book that uses global data to challenge common human misconceptions and pessimism about the state of the world.
Recommended“one is factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to to to the world.”
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Poor Economics
Poor Economics by Abhijit V.
Recommended“second book poor economics by Esther Duffel and Abig Banerjee. They're two of the founding members of this randomized control trial movement in development economics.”
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo is an immersive work of non-fiction that chronicles the lives of residents in a Mumbai squatter settlement over the course of several years, offering a deeply intimate look at poverty, ambition, and survival in the developing world.
Recommended“And then finally a book called Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Buu. uh she spent years in uh in Anawadi.”
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