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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400841295
035 _a(DE-B1597)447248
035 _a(OCoLC)979745755
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHC79.P6
072 7 _aBUS022000
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082 0 4 _a339.4/6
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aPoverty Traps /
_ced. by Samuel Bowles, Karla Hoff, Steven N. Durlauf.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2006
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I. Threshold Effects --
_tChapter 1. The Theory of Poverty Traps. What Have We Learned? --
_tPart II. Institutions --
_tChapter 2. The Persistence of Poverty in The Americas: The Role of Institutions --
_tChapter 3. Parasites --
_tChapter 4. The Kin System as a Poverty Trap? --
_tChapter 5. Institutional Poverty Traps --
_tPart III. Neighborhood Effects --
_tChapter 6. Groups, Social Influences, and Inequality --
_tChapter 7. Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods --
_tChapter 8. Spatial Concentration and Social Stratification: Does the Clustering of Disadvantage "Beget" Bad Outcomes? --
_tContributors --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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_2star
520 _aMuch 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-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps, Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf, Karla Hoff, and the book's other contributors argue that there are many conditions that may trap individuals, groups, and whole economies in intractable poverty. For the first time the editors have brought together the perspectives of economics, economic history, and sociology to assess what we know--and don't know--about such traps. Among the sources of the poverty of nations, the authors assign a primary role to social and political institutions, ranging from corruption to seemingly benign social customs such as kin systems. Many of the institutions that keep nations poor have deep roots in colonial history and persist long after their initial causes are gone. Neighborhood effects--influences such as networks, role models, and aspirations--can create hard-to-escape pockets of poverty even in rich countries. Similar individuals in dissimilar socioeconomic environments develop different preferences and beliefs that can transmit poverty or affluence from generation to generation. The book presents evidence of harmful neighborhood effects and discusses policies to overcome them, with attention to the uncertainty that exists in evaluating such policies.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aBUSINESS and amp
_xECONOMICS
_xEconomics
_xMacroeconomics.
650 0 _aEconomic history.
650 0 _aPolitical Economics, other.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_xEconomic conditions.
650 0 _aPoor.
650 0 _aPoverty.
650 0 _aSocial Sciences, Economics.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aWirtschaft.
650 7 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.
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700 1 _aAzariadis, Costas
_eautore
700 1 _aBowles, Samuel
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aDurlauf, Steven N.
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aEngerman, Stanley L.
_eautore
700 1 _aHoff, Karla
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aMehlum, Halvor
_eautore
700 1 _aMoene, Karl
_eautore
700 1 _aMorenoff, Jeffrey D.
_eautore
700 1 _aSampson, Robert J.
_eautore
700 1 _aSen, Arijit
_eautore
700 1 _aSobel, Michael E.
_eautore
700 1 _aSokoloff, Kenneth L.
_eautore
700 1 _aTorvik, Ragnar
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841295
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400841295
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