"But ultimately, he believes, the strength of his arguments is less in how they fit with the economic work that's been done to date on poverty - much of which h

"But ultimately, he believes, the strength of his arguments is less in how they fit with the economic work that's been done to date on poverty - much of which he is suspicious of anyway - but in how familiar they feel to all of us, rich or poor." I love this statement. I'm absolutely sure that the majority of theories to do with psychology/economics are based on intuition, much more than they are based on "hard facts" (because it's very hard to get hard data on these kinds of things). I'm happy he at least admits it.