Chapter 1: Introduction: Twelve Figures in Swedish Economics -- Chapter 2: The Inspiration for the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem -- Chapter 3: Gunnar Myrdal on Poverty and Circular, Cumulative Causation -- Chapter 4: Ingvar Svennilson on Economic Planning in War and Peace -- Chapter 5: From the...

Timor-Leste’s first ten years of independence have been turbulent and a large share of the population remains poor. Broad-based improvements in living standards will require improvements in agricultural production since most Timorese are subsistence farmers and since there is no modern sector...

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 writers and schools of modern economic thought across a...