The economics of witch hunting: "
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“Tanzania experiences a rash of ‘witch’ killings whenever there is a drought — a convenient way to get rid of an unproductive mouth to feed at times where resources are very tight. Families, it seems, suddenly discover that an older woman living with them (usually a grandmother) is a witch, after which she gets chased away or killed by others in the village.” — O
ne of many unpleasant-but-interesting paragraphs in Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty.”
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