1st Edition

Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought

Edited By Mats Lundahl, Daniel Rauhut, Neelambar Hatti Copyright 2021
    216 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    216 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction and abolition.

    This edited volume traces the ideas of key writers and schools of modern economic thought across a significant period, ranging from Friedrich Hayek and Keynes to latter-day economists like Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton. The chapters relate poverty to income distribution, asserting the point that poverty is not always conceived of in absolute terms but that relative and social deprivation matters also. Furthermore, the contributors deal with both individual poverty and the poverty of nations in the context of the international economy. In providing such a thorough exploration, this book shows that the approach to poverty differs from economist to economist depending on their particular interests and the main issues related to poverty in each epoch, as well as the influence of the intellectual climate that prevailed at the time when the contribution was made.

    This key text is valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of the history of economic thought, economic development and the economics of poverty.

    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.