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Poverty & Inequality

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  • Stephen Pimpare

    (Yeshiva College and Wurzweiler School of Social Work, 36 Ellwood Street E10, New York, NY, 10040, stephenpimpare@yahoo.com)

Abstract

Through the lens of the three books under review, this essay documents the contemporary rise in income and wealth inequality in the United States, evaluates competing explanations for it, and then turns its attention to post efforts by economists and philosophers to understand the consequences of inequality and poverty upon the social and political well-being of democratic polities. JEL classifications: B10, B20, H11, I30

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  • Stephen Pimpare, 2009. "Poverty & Inequality," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 41(4), pages 570-576, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:41:y:2009:i:4:p:570-576
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    Keywords

    inequality; Poverty; history of economic thought;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B10 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - General
    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General

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