Poverty traps - Bowles, Samuel; Durlauf, Steven N.; Hoff, Karla Ruth.; Russell Sage Foundation (New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006)
The theory of poverty traps: what have we learned? / Costas Azariadi s -- The persistence of poverty in the Americas: the role of institutio ns / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Parasites / Halvor Meh lum, Karl Moene, Ragnar Torvik -- The kin system as a poverty trap? / K arla Hoff, Arijit Sen -- Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles -- Groups, social influences, and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf -- Durab le inequality: spacial dynamics, social processes, and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Mor enoff -- Spatial concentration and social stratification: does the clus tering of disadvantage "beget" bad outcomes? / Michael E. Sobel.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Poverty