Armut in allen Formen zu beenden ist das erklärte Ziel der Vereinten Nationen. Aber was ist Armut? Und wer ist arm? Ist Armut messbar? Wie lässt sich Armut bekämpfen? Philipp Lepenies führt kundig und kompetent in ein komplexes Thema ein, das die Welt bewegt. Sein Buch stellt die wichtigsten...

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines....

Despite serious methodological problems, quantitative studies of poverty by U.S. sociologists predominantly rely on the official U.S. measure. After reviewing the shortcomings of the official measure, this paper examines several econometric and theoretical advances in poverty measurement. In...