Poverty traps

Author(s)

• Bowles, Samuel
• Durlauf, Steven N.
• Hoff, Karla Ruth

Bibliographic Information

Poverty traps

edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff

Russell Sage Foundation , Princeton University Press, c2006

• : cloth

Note

Research from a workshop, "Persistent Inequality in a Competitive World," and from other projects funded by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to the Santa Fe Institute

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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 and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
• Parasites / Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, and Ragnar Torvik
• The kin system as a poverty trap? / Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen
• Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles
• Groups, social influences, and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf
• Durable inequality : spatial dynamics, social processes, and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff
• Spatial concentration and social stratification : does the clustering of disadvantage "beget" bad outcomes? / Michael E. Sobel

Details

• NCID: BA7623114X
• ISBN:
  • 0691125007
• LCCN: 2005051066
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York,Princeton, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 241 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC79.P6
  • DC22 : 339.4/6