Poverty Traps /

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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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Corporate Author: Russell Sage Foundation
Other Authors: Hoff, Karla, 1953- (Editor), Durlauf, Steven N. (Editor), Bowles, Samuel (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poverty.
Economic history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
poverty.
Histoire economique.
Pauvrete.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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