“Poor Economics.” I was confused. I had been scavenging through our family bookshelf, looking for a book to pass the time reading, when I saw this title. Was there also such a thing as “poor physics” or “poor chemistry”? I really asked myself that. I opened the book and began reading the blurb. “A radical rethinking of the economics of poverty…why the poor need to borrow in order to save……the challenges