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 …

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 …

' was addressed, at least in part, to the index number problem of estimating intertemporal changes in general purchasing …