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In his recent book, Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond writes, “Poverty might consume your life, but it’s rarely embraced as an identity. It’s more socially acceptable today to disclose a mental illness than to tell someone you’re broke.” The striking thing about this statement is the degree to which it is both completely true and totally wrong.
Economic growth depends not only on channelising investments towards financially productive sectors but also facilitating women’s paid work.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 309 November 29, 1983 INDUSTRIAL POLICY WHO WINS, WHO LOSES INTRODUCTION Proponents of national industrial policy pursue noble goals.
<p>Two Justice's preoccupation with the fairness of relieving student debt proclaimed a concern that the government not pick economic winners and losers. But the student debt crisis reflects a decades-long bipartisan sales pitch, backed by policy, that college is the individual's path to prosperity. That pitch is now wearing thin. </p>
A highly praised book that lays bare the presuppositions that inform the “science” of social science invites readers to rethink how they interpret what is popularly considered “real,” not to mention “human.”