Author: Charles Karelis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300120907
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Why hasn't the poverty rate fallen in four decades, despite society's massive and varied efforts? The notable philosopher Charles Karelis contends that conventional explanations of poverty rest on a mistake. And so do the antipoverty policies they generate. This book proposes a new explanation of the behaviors that keep people poor, including nonwork, quitting school, nonsaving, and breaking the law. Provocative and thoughtful, it finds a hidden rationality in the problematic conduct of many poor people, a rationality long missed by economists. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, the author engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction, and from there to a new view of distributive justice and to fresh policy recommendations for combating poverty. With this bold work and original insights, the long-stalled campaign against poverty can begin to move forward once more.
Author: Charles Karelis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300120907
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Why hasn't the poverty rate fallen in four decades, despite society's massive and varied efforts? The notable philosopher Charles Karelis contends that conventional explanations of poverty rest on a mistake. And so do the antipoverty policies they generate. This book proposes a new explanation of the behaviors that keep people poor, including nonwork, quitting school, nonsaving, and breaking the law. Provocative and thoughtful, it finds a hidden rationality in the problematic conduct of many poor people, a rationality long missed by economists. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, the author engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction, and from there to a new view of distributive justice and to fresh policy recommendations for combating poverty. With this bold work and original insights, the long-stalled campaign against poverty can begin to move forward once more.
Author: Garth L. Mangum
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801871306
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence in the richest nation in the world. Providing a wealth of data and cogent analysis, this book can be used along with Programs for additional background, or can stand on its own. "This volume demonstrates more starkly than its parent the persistence of poverty in this nation. Though some individuals and families manage to escape it, the phenomenon diminishes not at all—or at least very little . . . Having been sobered by this thought, the student may ponder what more might conceivably be done to reduce the incidence of that endemic economic and social disease."—from the Preface
Author: Jo Blanden
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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"This study measures the extent to which growing up in poverty makes children more likely to be poor as adults. It compares teenagers from the 1970s with those from the 1980s. Undertaken by the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE."--JRF website.
Author: Charles Karelis
Publisher:
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Category : Human behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Nandini Gooptu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138099661
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into account the wider system of class and power relations in which it is rooted. This volume suggests that 'democracy in India may be as big a part of the problem as it is of the solution.'
Author: James Jennings
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780275949532
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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A guide to the key issues and writings on urban poverty in contemporary America.
Author: Jamie Swift
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 192666227X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Gives voice to our most vulnerable neighbors—people marginalized by joblessness, disability, poverty level wages, and mental illness
Author: George L. Beckford
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766400743
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.
Author: Rural Sociological Society
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315819
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America. Their findings discredit established theories such as the culture of poverty and suggest new explanations for rural poverty and new directions for antipoverty programs
Author: Svenja Flechtner
Publisher:
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Languages : de
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