Poverty and precarity Books
Oxford University Press Understanding Poverty
Book SynopsisUnderstanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of excessive population growth, corruption and ethnic conflict. The next section is about policy: how should we fight poverty? The essays discuss how to get drug companies to produce more vaccines for the diseases of the poor, what we should and should not expect from micro-credit, what we should do about child labor, how toTrade ReviewA serious examination of where we stand and what we need to do. * Nicholas Kristof, The New York Review of Books *Mass poverty is mankind's oldest, yet still most pressing, problem. Understanding Poverty describes the attack that economists are making to understand it on many different fronts. Every reader of the essays in this superb volume will appreciate the currrent excitement of development economics and the enormous progress it has made in the last two decades. * George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001 *Table of ContentsAbhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou and Dilip Mookherjee: Introduction 1: Angus Deaton: Measuring Poverty PART I: The Causes of Poverty 2: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson: Understanding Prosperity and Poverty: Geography, Institutions, and the Reversal of Fortune 3: Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff: Colonialism, Inequality, And Long-Run Paths Of Development 4: Thomas Piketty: The Kuznets Curve: Yesterday and Tomorrow 5: Philippe Aghion & Beatriz Armendàriz de Aghion: A New Growth Approach to Poverty Alleviation 6: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee: Globalization and All That 7: Pranab Bardhan: The Global Economy and the Poor 8: Mukesh Eswaran & Ashok Kotwal: The Role of Agriculture in Development 9: T. Paul Schultz: Fertility and Income 10: Mukesh Eswaran: Fertility in Developing Countries 11: Jean-Jacques Laffont: Corruption and Development 12: Edward Miguel: Ethnic Diversity and Poverty Reduction PART II: How Should We Go About Fighting Poverty? 13: Emmanuel Saez: Redistribution toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries 14: Martin Ravallion: Transfers and Safety Nets in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options 15: Dilip Mookherjee: Poverty Persistence and Design of Antipoverty Policies 16: Christopher Udry: Child Labor 17: Kaushik Basu: Policy Dilemmas for Controlling Child Labor 18: Anne Case: The Primacy of Education 19: Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak: Public Goods and Economic Development 20: Jean Tirole: Intellectual Property and Health in Developing Countries 21: Michael Kremer: Public Policies to Stimulate Development of Vaccines for Neglected Diseases 22: Jonathan Morduch: Microinsurance: The Next Revolution? 23: Robert M. Townsend: 23) Credit, Intermediation, and Poverty Reduction PART III: New Ways of Thinking About Poverty 24: Esther Duflo: Poor but Rational? 25: Sendhil Mullainathan: Better Choices to Reduce Poverty 26: Kaivan Munshi: Nonmarket Institutions 27: Glenn C. Loury: Racial Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory 28: Debraj Ray: Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change
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Oxford University Press Rich Democracies Poor People
Book SynopsisPoverty is not simply the result of an individual''s characteristics, behaviors or abilities. Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies, Poor People, Brady investigates why poverty is so entrenched in some affluent democracies whereas it is a solvable problem in others. Drawing on over thirty years of data from eighteen countries, Brady argues that cross-national and historical variations in poverty are principally driven by differences in the generosity of the welfare state. An explicit challenge to mainstream views of poverty as an inescapable outcome of individual failings or a society''s labor markets and demography, this book offers institutionalized power relations theory as an alternative explanation. The power of coalitions for egalitarianism, Leftist political groups and parties, and the social policies they are able to institutionalize shape the amount of poverty in society. Where poverty is low, equality has been institutionaTrade Reviewan ambitious, impressively well-argued and long-overdue contribution to the poverty debate. * Fiona Taylor, The Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsAPPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES
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Clarendon Press The Moral Demands of Affluence
Book SynopsisHow much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us? On any credible moral outlook, other people''s pressing need for assistance can ground moral requirements on us to help them---requirements of beneficence. How far do those requirements extend?One way to think about this is by means of a simple analogy: an analogy between joining in efforts to help people at a distance and rescuing a needy person yourself, directly. Part I of Garrett Cullity''s book examines this analogy. In some ways, the analogy is not only simple, but politically and metaphysically simplistic. However, it contains an important truth: we are morally required to help other people, indirectly as well as directly. But the number of needy people in the world is enormous, and their need is very great. Once we start to recognize requirements to help them, when is it morally acceptable to stop? Cullity answers this question in Part II. Examining the nature of beneficence, he argues that itTrade ReviewReview from previous edition How much money and time does morality oblige the relatively affluent to devote to the relief of poverty, suffering, and other disadvantages? Anyone who finds this question remotely important should read Garrett Cullity's meticulous, even-handed treatment. The publication of this monograph signals the continuing emergence of a normative orientation that one might call "beneficence theory". . . . Many philosophers are attracted to the arguments which Cullity . . . dismantles. They will learn from him. By treating well-chosen opposing views so carefully and thoroughly, the book also rewards those who reject the author's ultimate conclusions. . . . the book offers something for nearly everyone. . . . the chapters are well-organized and clearly written. An advanced undergraduate with an ethics background should be able to follow them, and will gain a sophisticated overview of this vital area. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Cullity has presented us with a thorough, detailed, and serious argument ... an important contribution to the discussion of this issue. * James R. Otteson, Journal of Value Inquiry *Table of Contents1. The Life-Saving Analogy ; 2. An Argument from Beneficence ; 3. Objections to Aid ; 4. Saving Lives ; 5. The Extreme Demand ; 6. Problems of Demandingness ; 7. Impartiality, Fairness, and Beneficence ; 8. The Rejection of the Extreme Demand ; 9. Permission ; 10. Requirement ; 11. Overview ; Appendix 1: Poverty and Aid ; Appendix 2: The Cost of Saving a Life
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Oxford University Press Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe
Book SynopsisAs events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty.Based on careful and systematic analysis of national data, the authors describe just how much the two continents differ in their level of State engagement in the redistribution of income. Discussing various possible economic explanations for the difference, they cover different levels of pre-tax income, openness, and social mobility; they survey politico-historical differences such as the varying physical size of nations, their electoral and legal systems, and the character of their political parties, as well as their experiences of war; and they examine sociological explanations, which include different attitudes to the poor and notions of social responsibility. Most importantly, they address attitudes to race, calculating that attitudes to race explain half the observed difference in levels of public redistrTrade Review... remarkable book ... Mr Alesina and Mr Glaeser, both Harvard economists, are doing what the best in their profession do well these days: seeking to explain society not merely with conventional economic tools but with analysis of institutions, geography and social behaviour. * The Economist 12 March 2004 *In what ways, and why, are the United States and Europe so far apart in social policy? Alesina and Glaeser give us as definitive an answer to this fundamental question as we shall ever see. * George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize Laureate *This probing of the forces behind 'American exceptionalism', as measured by a much smaller welfare state than in Europe, is immensely important. The authors take a multi-discipline approach and consider many factors, including narrowly economic variables, political institutions, racial and ethnic diversity, the effects of wars, attitudes toward the poor, and still others. Their findings are sometimes surprising and frequently provocative. This monograph will quickly become the foundation of further literature on a subject of enormous significance. * Gary S. Becker, Nobel Prize Laureate *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Redistribution in the United Sates and Europe: the data ; 3. Economic explanations ; 4. Political institutions and redistribution ; 5. The origin of political institutions ; 6. Race and redistribution ; 7. The Ideology of Redistribution ; 8. Conclusions ; Index
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Oxford University Press Poor Justice How the Poor Fare in the Courts
Book SynopsisPoor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid and informative account of what happens when the legal system decides cases in areas crucial to the poor''s economic and social well-being, including government benefits, child welfare, homelessness, the mental health system, education, and the criminal justice system. Drawing from court room observations, court decisions and supplementary legal and case materials, this book spans the street level justice of administrative hearings and lower courts (where people plead for welfare benefits or for a child not to be taken away), the mid-level justice of state courts (where advocates argue for the right to shelter for the homeless and for the rights of the mentally disabled), and the high justice of the Supreme Court (where the battle for school integration hPoor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid portrait and appraisal of how the lives of poor people are disrupted or helped by the judicial system, from the lowest to the highest courts. Drawing from court room observations, court decisions, and other material, this book spans the street level justice of administrative hearings and lower courts (where people plead for welfare benefits or for a child not to be taken away), the mid-level justice of state courts (where advocates argue for the right to shelter for the homeless and for the rights of the mentally disabled), and the high justice of the Supreme Court (where the battle for school integration has represented a route out of poverty and the stop and frisk cases illustrate a route to greater poverty, through the mass incarceration of people of color). Poor Justice brings readers inside the courts, telling the story through the words and actions of the judges, lawyers, and ordinary people who populate it. It seeks to both edify and criticize. Readers will learn not only how courts work, but also how courts sometimes help - and often fail - the poor.as represented a route out of poverty). Poor Justice brings readers inside the courts, telling the story through the words and actions of the judges, lawyers, and ordinary people who populate it. It seeks to both edify and criticize. Readers will learn not only how courts work, but also how courts sometimes help, but often fail, the poor.Trade ReviewPoor Justice is one of those rare books that is not only a riveting read, but also makes an important scholarly contribution. Vicki Lens's clear and engaging writing provides readers with a sobering analysis of how marginalized groups fare in the U.S. legal system. As a former legal services lawyer and social scientist, Vicki Lens shares an insider's knowledge with an outsider's critical eye. * Corey Shdaimah, PhD, LLM, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work *Lens draws upon her rich experiences as a lawyer, social worker, and ground-level researcher to illuminate the daily experiences of people without income in the courts. Like almost no one else, she knows unglamorous but essential corners of law, including welfare hearings, commitment proceedings for people with mental disabilities, and family courts. This text is a fine primer on law for the poor - and on the uses and limits of all kinds of law. * Felicia Kornbluh, PhD, MA, Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont *Vicki Lens provides an insider's human perspective on how the courts can in fact work for the least advantaged in our society. Poor Justice deftly combines ethnographic detail of courtroom drama with legal analysis and political critique. It makes for compelling reading and important scholarship about how the courts do indeed offer some basis for hope. This book deserves wide readership by students, scholars, policymakers, and citizens alike. * Sanford Schram, PhD, MA, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY *Professor Lens has written a scholarly and immensely readable analysis of justice - actually the lack of justice - for poor Americans. It is a powerful and irresistible call to action. * Robert Hayes, JD, Founder, National Coalition for the Homeless; President and CEO, Community Healthcare Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Street Level Justice One: The Rules of Engagement Two: Welfare Fair Hearings Three: Child Maltreatment Proceedings Four: The Justice of Street Level Justice Part II: Justice for the Many: Social Reform Litigation Five: Courts as a Catalyst for Social Change Six: Protecting or Coercing Persons with Mental Disabilities Seven: Legal Advocacy for the Homeless Eight: The Justice of Social Reform Litigation Part III: High Justice: The Supreme Court Nine: The Supreme Court Ten: Race, Education and the Constitution Eleven: Criminal Justice and Racial Profiling Twelve: The High Justice of the Supreme Court Conclusion References Index
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Oxford University Press Dancing with Broken Bones
Book SynopsisDancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad invisibility. He demonstrates how a complex array of factors, such as mistrust of physicians, regrettable indignities in care, and inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families, shape the experience of the dying poor in the inner city. This book challenges readers to look at reality in a different way. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage to the dying poor. Dancing with Broken Bones serves as a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable, yet inspiring, people who comprise the world of the inner city dying poor.Trade ReviewRead this book. It will remind you why you became a physician. * The Lancet *Moller has produced a profound literary work. * Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care *...stories of courage, faith, suffering, and neglect are interwoven in a remarkable book for anyone with an interest in end-of-life care. * Journal of Palliative Medicine *Moller takes us through doors that we otherwise would not cross. He introduces us to people who are authentically themselves, fully alive, despite dismal circumstances. We hear their anger as well as their humor, see their suffering as well as their joy. They teach us the importance of feeling connected to others and the critical value of forgiveness, gratitude, and love at the end of life. Suffering misfortune that few of us can imagine, the people whose stories Moller tells reveal the inherent dignity and the indomitable nature of the human spirit. * - Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well, and co-founder of Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project *For most of us, the lives and deaths of the urban homeless remain invisible and largely unfathomable. Dr. Moller and his colleagues have had the courage to enter this world, and to even take medical students with them! In Dancing with Broken Bones, we too are invited along to witness its tragedies and its humanity. In these remarkable real-life narratives, we can contemplate what a dignified death might look like in the face of extreme poverty and homelessness. In doing so, we are invited to consider what is important in our own privileged lives and deaths, and how we should be caring for those who are far less fortunate. * Timothy E. Quill, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine *Dr. Moller has shed light on the forgotten world of illness and dying in the urban poor. Through eloquence, grace, and wit, he makes us face what to many is too painful to contemplate - death that is painful, lonely, and unwanted. This book will serve as a landmark in the death and dying literature, forcing health professionals and society at large to work harder toward an equitable system of healthcare for the living and the dying. * David E. Weissman, MD, Palliative Care Center, Medical College of Wisconsin *This book moved me to tears, to anger, to repeated shocks of recognition, as well as to joy and to pride at being part of a human race whose members are capable of such remarkable love and care for one another. * Diane E. Meier, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine *The grace and dignity of humanity is pervasive and memorable in these stories of living with poverty and fatal illness; but I hope that we are also profoundly moved to relieve the tragic circumstances that poverty and inept healthcare arrangements inflicted upon the people whose stories David Moller tells. * Joanne Lynn, MD, The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revisiting Dancing with Broken Bones ; Chapter 1. Crossing the Tracks ; Chapter 2. Dying Poor: An Invisible World ; Chapter 3. Dying the Public Hospital System: Institutional Arrangements and Provider Perspectives ; Chapter 4. Courage Through Suffering: Snapshots of the Dying Poor ; Chapter 5. Triumph and Faith Through Harsh Reality and Personal Tragedy: Lucille Angel ; Chapter 6. Life on the Brink: Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler ; Chapter 7. A Conclusion: Conscious Listening, Mindful Presence-A Lesson Learned ; Epilogue. An Urban Thoreau
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Oxford University Press The Global Auction
Book SynopsisFor decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars.Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how to thrive in it. Drawing on cutting-edge research based on a major international study, the authors show that the competition for good, middle-class jobs is now a worldwide competition--an auction for cut-priced brainpower--fueled by an explosion of higher education across the world. They highlight a fundamental power shift in favor of corporate bosses and emerging economies such as China and India, a change that is driving the new global high-skill, low-wage workforce. Fighting for a dwindling supply of good jobs will compel the middle Trade Reviewa very important contribution to the debate on skills and inequality. * Marius R. Busemeyer, Socio-Economic Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Promise ; 3. The Education Explosion ; 4. The Quality Revolution ; 5. Intellectual Arbitrage ; 6. Digital Taylorism ; 7. War for Talent ; 8. High Skills, Low Wages ; 9. The Rat Race ; 10. A New Opportunity ; Notes ; References ; Index
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Legacy Lit Maid
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Taylor & Francis The Political Economy of Rural Poverty The Case for Land Reform
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Basic Books The War Against The Poor The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy
Book SynopsisIn his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term underclass to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of people,welfare recipients, the working poor, teenage mothers, drug addicts, the homeless, and others,to a single condemned class, feared and despised by the rest of society. Probing the deep psychological, social, and political reasons why Americans seek to indict millions of poor citizens as undeserving, Gans calls for a cease-fire in the undeclared war against the poor. He concludes with a set of innovative, job-centreed policy proposals and a multifaceted educational plan to stop the endless flow of new recruits into America''s untouchable caste.Table of ContentsLabeling the Poor; The Invention of the Underclass Label; The Dangers of Underclass and Other Labels; The Undeservingness of the Poor; Policies Against Poverty and Undeservingness; Joblessness and Antipoverty Policy in the Twenty-first Century
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Random House USA Inc Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which noth
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) There Is No Place for Us
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) There Is No Place for Us
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iUniverse Somewhere Every Day
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iUniverse Beyond the Shadows I Was Forced to Marry at Fourteen
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International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. The Housing Question
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LUP - University of Georgia Press You Have Seen Their Faces
Book SynopsisA graphic portrayal of the sharecropper's plight. This book documents the living conditions of the sharecroppers, America's poor rural underclass. Supported by commentary, the poor tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them.
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Acorn Press God of the EmptyHanded
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Day at the Fare
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LEGARE STREET PR How the Other Half Lives
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LEGARE STREET PR How the Other Half Lives
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Legare Street Press Why There are Vagrants A Study Based Upon a Examination of one Hundred Men
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Legare Street Press On Cases Of Death By Starvation And Extreme Distress Among The Humbler Classes
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Legare Street Press The The New Republic. A Scheme to Abolish Poverty.The Antipoverty Society on the American Plan
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Legare Street Press The Poor in Great Cities
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Legare Street Press Poor law Unions a Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor law Parishes in England and Wales and of the Population Area and Rateable Value Thereof in 1881
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Legare Street Press Bridging the Gap
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