"Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of revealing causality. Assembling multi …-disciplinary and international contributions, this book shows that a causal understanding of poverty in rich and poor countries is … mechanisms producing poverty as an outcome. Processes that widen/strengthen crisis-ridden market relations, that increase income …

Locke -- The noble poor : Jean Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith -- Empirical influences and the complexities of poverty … : Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill -- Poverty as a challenge to capitalist economies : G.W. Hegel and Karl Marx … -- Poverty and justice : John Rawls and Robert Nozick …