"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 …, ranging from Adam Smith and Malthus, through to Wicksell, Cassel, and Heckscher. The chapters relate poverty to income …

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

poverty and unemployment -- Minsky and the global financial crisis -- Minsky and financial reform -- Conclusion : reforms to …