Poverty Traps

by Samuel Bowles

Book Overview

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-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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691170932
• ISBN13: 9780691170930
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"