The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780190947361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 936 str.

David Brady; Linda M. Burton

Recenzje

This book is a useful compendium of writings regarding the nature of poverty. Each of the sections does an effective job of discussing the traditional dimensions of poverty, such as measurement, people versus place, economics versus personal decisions, and policy responses. The hidden gem in this work, however, is the last chapter, which deals with a new paradigm for addressing poverty. Readers will find the work heavily academic but useful for understanding the nature of this social problem.

O autorze

David Brady is Professor in the School of Public Policy, and Director of the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty at the University of California, Riverside. He is also affiliated with the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he was Director of the Inequality and Social Policy department from 2012-2015. He is the author of Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty. Linda M. Burton is Dean of Social Sciences and James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University.