Poverty traps / edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff.
Much popular belief, and public policy, rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their powers to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world has led to many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determ...
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Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton University Press,
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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.