The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor

by Charles H. Karelis

Book Overview

New thinking about poverty is finally here

In this important book, one of our boldest and most original thinkers charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to fail. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, Charles Karelis engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300151365
• ISBN13: 9780300151367
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"