Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize
By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven. Originally published at openDemocracy UK This week it was announced that Abhijit Baner
Poverty
The Criminalization of Homelessness
By Brian Hennigan; PhD candidate in Geography at Syracuse. The criminalization of homeless people in the United Stat
Taking poverty studies – and policy – back from the rich.
Political economist Andrew Fischer studies poverty, and the study of poverty, beyond the neoliberal frame – fr
An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame: Can the Rich be Poor?
By Mark Peacock, This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for exam
New Book: Inequality, Boom, and Bust – From Billionaire Capitalism to Equality and Full Employment
By Howard J. & Paul D. Sherman, From Routledge: There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the ri
New Book: Extracting Profit – Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
by Lee Wengraf. From Haymarket Books: A piercing historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societi
2018 Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research: Space and Poverty
The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg (CEPR) organizes an annual conference since
Just How Democratic Is Mexico?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9me1NxrG-ns&w=760&h=500] As neoliberalism caused greater
Fadhel Kaboub on An Affordable Job Guarantee Program
Tuesday October 17, 2017 at 7pm (see livestream link below), 1717 Brittain Road, Akron, Ohio 44310 Fadhel Kaboub, Asso
New Book: Understanding Global Poverty – Causes, Capabilities and Human Development
By Serena Cosgrove, Benjamin Curtis. From Routledge: Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study
Improving Health by Reducing Poverty
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kdkWUKqzQ&w=760&h=500] During The Real News Network inte
Call For Papers: The Poverty of Academia – Exploring the Realities of Working Class Academics
The Journal of Working-Class Studies Special Issue, December 2017: The Poverty of Academia: Exploring the (Intersec
The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
By Servaas Storm, The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 deeply scarred the U.S. economy, bringing nine dire years of econo
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr, & Darrick Hamilton Universal basic income (UBI), an annual government-sponsore
Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing
From Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Much attention has been given in recent years to low-wage work in th
New book by Hassan Bougrine: The Creation of Wealth and Poverty – Means and Ways.
From Routledge: There is a failure of governments to provide the citizens of developing countries with the necessary i
TANF didn’t fight poverty, full employment did
By Virginia Rutter Welfare reform hits 20 this month. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done much work exa
Maintaining poverty through restrictive voter registration laws
Barriers to entry, typically established and enforced by the legal system for the benefit of those that control the pol
Lawrence Mishel on Raising America’s Pay
Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, delivered the following testimony before the Democra