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Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman.

My guest today is Professor Abhijit Bonnergy.

Professor Bonnergy is a Nobel Prize winning economist, an econ professor at MIT, and a co-founder

of the Abdul Latif Jamil Poverty Action Lab.

Bonnergy and I discuss the difference between empirical work and theoretical work in economics.

We talk about Bonnergy's Nobel Prize-winning research on alleviating global poverty.

We talk about whether immigrants drive down wages for native workers. We talk about the role of

financial incentives in driving human behavior. We talk about welfare. We talk about the effect

of globalism on American industries like manufacturing

and the social consequences of having whole industries die out and much more. So without further

ado, Abhijit Banerjee. Professor Banerjee, thanks so much for coming on my show.

Thank you for having me.

So before we get into all of the topics of your expertise,

can you give my listeners who, if they haven't heard of you from your Nobel Prize

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