The Persistence of poverty : why the economics of the well-off can't help the poor / Charles Karelis
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TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford India, 2008Description: xvii, 190p, 21cmISBN: - 9780198060031
- 339.46 KAR
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The Persistence of Poverty proposes a new explanation of the behaviors that keep people poor including nonwork, quitting school, nonsaving, and breaking the law. This provocative, thoughtful book finds a hidden rationality in the problematic conduct of many poor people, a rationality long missed by economists. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, Karelis engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction and from there to a new view of distributive justice and to fresh policy recommendations for combating poverty.
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