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Wealth Poverty and Politics
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780465096770 |
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In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.
Relational Poverty Politics
Author | : Victoria Lawson,Sarah Elwood |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780820353128 |
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This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as material and social relations. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus on the politics of insurgent movements against poverty and inequality in seven countries (Argentina, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, and the United States). The contributors explore theory and practice in alliance politics, resistance movements, the militarized repression of justice movements, global counterpublics, and political theater. These movements reflect the diversity of poverty politics and the relations between bureaucracies and antipoverty movements. They discuss work done by mass and other types of mobilizations across multiple scales; forms of creative and political alliance across axes of difference; expressions and exercises of agency by people named as poor; and the kinds of rights and other claims that are made in different spaces and places. Relational Poverty Politics advocates for poverty knowledge grounded in relational perspectives that highlight the adversarial relationship of poverty to privilege, as well as the possibility for alliances across different groups. It incorporates current research in the field and demonstrates how relational poverty knowledge is best seen as a model for understanding how theory is derivative of action as much as the other way around. The book lays a foundation for realistic change that can directly attack poverty at its roots. Contributors: Antonádia Borges, Dia Da Costa, Sarah Elwood, David Boarder Giles, Jim Glassman, Victoria Lawson, Felipe Magalhães, Jeff Maskovsky, Richa Nagar, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, LaShawnDa Pittman, Frances Fox Piven, Preeti Sampat, Thomas Swerts, and Junjia Ye.
The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada
Author | : Will Langford |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-01-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780228004745 |
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In the 1960s and 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War and an international decolonization movement, development advocates believed that poverty could be ended, at home and abroad. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores the relationship between poverty, democracy, and development during this remarkable period. Will Langford analyzes three Canadian development programs that unfolded on local, regional, and international scales. He reveals the interconnections of anti-poverty activism carried out by the Company of Young Canadians among Métis in northern Alberta and francophones in Montreal, by the Cape Breton Development Corporation, and by Canadian University Service Overseas in Tanzania. In dialogue with the New Left, liberal reformers committed to development programs they believed would empower the poor to confront their own poverty and thereby foster a more meaningful democracy. However, democracy and development proved to be fundamentally contested, and development programs stopped short of amending capitalist social relations and the inequalities they engendered. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores how Canadians engaged in informal and formal politics in the course of their everyday lives, locally and transnationally. Langford provides an enduring record of otherwise fleeting anti-poverty programs and their effects: the lived activism and opinions of development workers and ordinary people.
The Politics of Poverty Reduction
Author | : Paul Mosley,Blessing Chiripanhura,Jean Grugel,Ben Thirkell-White |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199692125 |
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"With assistance from Blessing Chiripanhura, Jean Grugel, and Ben Thirkell-White."
Policy Politics and Poverty in South Africa
Author | : Jeremy Seekings,Nicoli Nattrass,Kasper |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781137452696 |
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Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world.
Politics of the Poor
Author | : Indrajit Roy |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781316674345 |
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This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.
Poor bashing
Author | : Jean Swanson |
Publsiher | : Between The Lines |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Discrimination |
ISBN | : 9781896357447 |
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The special language of poor-bashing disguises the real causes of poverty, hurts and excludes people who are poor, cheapens the labour of people who have jobs, and takes the pressure off the rich. Swanson, a twenty-five year veteran of anti-poverty work, exposes the ideology of poor-bashing in a clear, forceful style. She examines how media "poornography" operates when reporters cover poverty stories. She also reveals how government and corporate clients use poor-bashing focus groups. To make the book even more useful Swanson includes key chapters on the history of poor-bashing.
Poor Representation
Author | : Kristina C. Miler |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108473507 |
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The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.