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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Russell Sage Foundation
Otros Autores: Bowles, Samuel (Editor ), Durlauf, Steven N. (Editor ), Hoff, Karla, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Princeton, N.J. : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Poverty.
Economic history.
Pauvreté.
Histoire économique.
poverty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
Economic history
Poverty
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Multi-User.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The theory of poverty traps: what have we learned? / Costas Azariadis
  • The persistence of poverty in the Americas: the role of institutions / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
  • Parasites / Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, Ragnar Torvik
  • The kin system as a poverty trap? / Karla Hoff, Arijit Sen
  • Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles
  • Groups, social influences, and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf
  • Durable inequality: spacial dynamics, social processes, and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Morenoff
  • Spatial concentration and social stratification: does the clustering of disadvantage "beget" bad outcomes? / Michael E. Sobel.

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