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- Lundahl, Mats, et al.
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Introduction : Poverty in contemporary economic thought
- 2021
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Ingår i: Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought. - First Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2021. | : Routledge. - 9780367354268 - 9781000368291 ; , s. 1-12
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides presentation of the work of the economists who received the 2019 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It deals almost exclusively with poverty within a nation, with the situation of individuals in society. The book explores the perspective to a comparison between nations, rich versus poor nations, and to the mechanisms which make for differences between national income levels. It identifies and examines what he had to say about the nature, origin, and possible solution of poverty. The book discusses poverty in the context of criticism of socialism, and the authors explain why this is so. It provides a discussion of the causes of poverty and its possible remedies, according to Hayek.
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Poverty in contemporary economic thought
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Ahmed, Ali, Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Ethnic Discrimination During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- 2023
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Ingår i: Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031191558 - 9783031191534 - 9783031191527 ; , s. 291-314
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ethnic discrimination is common in labor and housing markets. It leads to lower wages and higher unemployment for ethnic minorities, to segregation in the labor market, and to residential segregation. Several studies show that the Covid-19 pandemic increased the extent of ethnic discrimination. The prejudice against hiring migrants may have increased because people from countries where the epidemic started or from countries with a lower vaccination coverage were blamed for the spread. It may also have increased in the cases where the Covid-19 pandemic led to higher unemployment making it less costly for employers to discriminate.
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- Lundahl, Mats
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Haiti : The Country that God Forgot
- 2023. - 1st
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Haiti: The Country that God Forgot deals with some of the most important reasons for the present chaotic state of affairs in Haiti. The chapters of the book were written between 2012 and 2022. During that period, the economic, political and social situation in Haiti underwent a drastic degeneration. The spiral of violence which accelerated after the murder of president Moïse in 2021 continues its movement. In 2023, there is no question about the fact that Haiti has turned into a failed state, a state that threatens to collapse completely.
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- Lundahl, Mats
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Knut Wicksell and the causes of poverty
- 2021
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Ingår i: Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics. - Oxon & New York : Routledge. - 9780429331299 - 9780367354237 ; , s. 128-146
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to Knut Wicksell, the cause of poverty was found in the growth of the population—a fact that Wicksell stressed all his professional life. Too many children made for poor families. Diminishing returns everywhere characterized the economy, which in the end would be conducive to a Malthusian situation unless the surplus population emigrated. The optimum population was the one maximizing the per capita income. As Wicksell saw it, the remedy, in turn, was early marriages combined with the use of contraceptive methods within the family. For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that Wicksell’s analysis of poverty was the one area where he was not original; he was simply considered a follower of Malthus. Our analysis, however, shows that Knut Wicksell’s views on population growth, diminishing returns and poverty constitute a full-fledged general equilibrium system of population growth, production, consumption, international trade and migration in a framework that was later recognized as the specific factors model of international trade.
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- Lundahl, Mats
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The Dynamics of Poverty : Circular, Cumulative Causation, Value Judgments, Institutions and Social Engineering in the World of Gunnar Myrdal
- 2021
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book examines Gunnar Myrdal's analysis of poverty in relation to Sweden, the United States, South Asia, and the international economy. The chapters investigate Mrydal's methodological development and his focus on the principle of circular and cummulative causation, dynamic economic analysis, institutional frameworks, value premises, and social engineering. The challenge of world poverty, the international dimension of poverty, and the legacy of The American Dilemma and Asian Drama are also discussed. This book aims to explore the development of Myrdal's analysis of poverty during his life. It will be relevant to students and academics interested in the history of economic thought, development economics, the political economy, and labor economics.
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- Lundahl, Mats
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Bo Södersten from Left to Right : Portrait of a Political Economist
- 2022. - 1st
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book explores the economic work and legacy of Bo Södersten. While best known internationally for his textbook International Economics, Södersten’s influence stretches well beyond this. Through his academic work and newspaper articles, he covered a wide spectrum of topics that often challenged conventional wisdom. By examining his work on housing, the labor-managed economy, development economics, nuclear power, childcare, and higher education, a full view of his diverse work is presented. This book aims to provide insight into the motivations and impact of Bo Södersten during each phase of his life: his academic career, his political life, and his time as a debater-provocateur. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in Swedish economics, the history of economic thought, and international economics.
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- Lundahl, Mats
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The economics of being poor: The gospel according to Theodore W. Schultz
- 2021
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Ingår i: Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought. - First Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2021. | : Routledge. ; , s. 103-124
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter deals with the view of Theodore W. Schultz on what causes poverty and how poverty can be overcome, mainly as he expressed it in Transforming Traditional Agriculture, published in 1964. It also examines the criticism directed against Schultz and some suggested alternatives to his analysis. The basic tenet of Schultz’ analysis is that farmers in poor countries are profit maximizers who behave rationally. They are poor because they are constrained. The production factors at their disposal are fully utilized, but their yield is low. New, technologically superior production factors are needed to break out of poverty: above all improvement of the human factor through education. Schultz’ critics argued that he neglected that traditional farmers are operating in an environment characterized by risk of falling below the subsistence level in bad years, and that hence their behavior was guided by survival algorithms instead of by profit maximization, and that his discussion of education and its effects failed to take the institutional context in the Third World into account. © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Mats Lundahl, Daniel Rauhut, and Neelambar Hatti; individual chapters, the contributors.
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