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Poverty traps /

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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: Russell Sage Foundation
Autres auteurs: Bowles, Samuel (Éditeur intellectuel), Durlauf, Steven N. (Éditeur intellectuel), Hoff, Karla, 1953- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Princeton, N.J. : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.