1st Edition
Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought
Introduction: poverty in contemporary economic thought
MATS LUNDAHL, DANIEL RAUHUT, AND NEELAMBAR HATTI
1 Hayek, welfarism, and the deserving poor
INGEMAR BENGTSSON AND DANIEL RAUHUT
2 Economist and statesman: Keynes on poverty
SANTANU GHOSH
3 Poverty and circular, cumulative causation: the views of Gunnar Myrdal
MATS LUNDAHL
4 Veblen, North, and the institutional economics on poverty
PETER L. DANIELS
5 Sir Arthur Lewis on economic growth and global poverty alleviation
RONALD FINDLAY
6 The economics of being poor: the gospel according to Theodore W. Schultz
MATS LUNDAHL
7 Why poor countries remain poor: the Latin American dependency school
STEFAN DE VYLDER
8 Poverty and New Welfare Economics
ANDREAS BERGH
9 Capability deprivation and poverty: Amartya Sen revisited
DANIEL RAUHUT AND NEELAMBAR HATTI
10 Angus Deaton on poverty
ARNE BIGSTEN
11 Alleviating global poverty: a note on the experimental approach
PETER FREDRIKSSON, SEBASTIAN JÄVERVALL, EVA MÖRK, TORSTEN PERSSON, AND JAKOB SVENSSON
Biography
Mats Lundahl is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Daniel Rauhut is Associate Professor and holds a PhD in Economic History. He works as senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland.
Neelambar Hatti is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden.
