successive failures in the fight against poverty have led to new strategies to combat it, an example of which is "pro-poor growth …

Klappentext: "Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought … deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition. This edited volume traces the ideas of key …-day economists like Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton. The chapters relate poverty to income distribution, asserting the point that …

Poverty and Employment -- 2 Adam Smith-A Champion for the Poor! -- 3 Malthus and the Poor -- 4 David Ricardo on Poverty -- 5 … Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Economic thought and Poverty -- 1 Were Good Times Really that Bad? Mercantilist Views on … Saving the Poor: John Stuart Mill on Poverty and the Poor -- 6 Marx and His Followers on Poverty -- 7 Alfred Marshall …

, ranging from Adam Smith and Malthus, through to Wicksell, Cassel, and Heckscher. The chapters relate poverty to income …"Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics aims to describe and … critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and …