| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The theory of poverty traps: what have we learned? / Costas Azariadis -- The persistence of poverty in the Americas: the role of institutions / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Parasites / Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, Ragnar Torvik -- The kin system as a poverty trap? / Karla Hoff, Arijit Sen -- Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles -- Groups, social influences, and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf -- Durable inequality: spacial dynamics, social processes, and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Spatial concentration and social stratification: does the clustering of disadvantage "beget" bad outcomes? / Michael E. Sobel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poverty.
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Poverty. |
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Economic history.
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Economic history. |
| Indexed Term |
JSTOR-DDA |
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Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bowles, Samuel.
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Durlauf, Steven N.
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Hoff, Karla, 1953-
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Russell Sage Foundation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poverty traps. New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005051066 |
| ISBN |
9781400841295 (electronic book) |
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1400841291 (electronic book) |
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0691125007 |
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9780691125008 |
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