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Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determina...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Azariadis, Costas (Contribuidor), Bowles, Samuel (Contribuidor, Editor ), Durlauf, Steven N. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Engerman, Stanley L. (Contribuidor), Hoff, Karla (Contribuidor, Editor ), Mehlum, Halvor (Contribuidor), Moene, Karl (Contribuidor), Morenoff, Jeffrey D. (Contribuidor), Sampson, Robert J. (Contribuidor), Sen, Arijit (Contribuidor), Sobel, Michael E. (Contribuidor), Sokoloff, Kenneth L. (Contribuidor), Torvik, Ragnar (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
BUSINESS and amp > ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Economic history.
Political Economics, other.
Political science > Economic conditions.
Poor.
Poverty.
Social Sciences, Economics.
Social sciences.
Wirtschaft.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Threshold Effects
  • Chapter 1. The Theory of Poverty Traps. What Have We Learned?
  • Part II. Institutions
  • Chapter 2. The Persistence of Poverty in The Americas: The Role of Institutions
  • Chapter 3. Parasites
  • Chapter 4. The Kin System as a Poverty Trap?
  • Chapter 5. Institutional Poverty Traps
  • Part III. Neighborhood Effects
  • Chapter 6. Groups, Social Influences, and Inequality
  • Chapter 7. Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods
  • Chapter 8. Spatial Concentration and Social Stratification: Does the Clustering of Disadvantage "Beget" Bad Outcomes?
  • Contributors
  • Index

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