Poverty and austerity amid prosperity: a comparative introduction
"In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen refocuses our attention on rising levels of poverty and homelessness, suggesting what we can do to address these issues. Highlighting the important differences between Canada, the UK, and the US, this volume …
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- Full title :Poverty and austerity amid prosperity : a comparative introduction / Gregg M. Olsen.
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"In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen refocuses our attention on rising levels of poverty and homelessness, suggesting what we can do to address these issues. Highlighting the important differences between Canada, the UK, and the US, this volume explores the broad and narrow ways that poverty and homelessness have been conceptualized, and how this has shaped the way they are defined, measured, and addressed in each country. After a careful examination of poverty in these three countries, the volume draws comparisons with European nations that have been more successful in keeping issues relating to poverty under control. Olsen presents and critically contrasts the two main theoretical traditions, individual versus society, that have emerged to explain poverty and homelessness. Olsen argues that societal approaches to the study of poverty are better equipped to explain the developments unfolding across these nations, and that the eradication of poverty will only happen when the socio-economic system has been seriously overhauled and founded upon economic democracy."
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- Publication Date:2021
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- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 288 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781487509859, 1487509855, 9781487509842, 1487509847
- oclc:on1330421922
- LC Classification:JA
- Dewey Decimal:362.5
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