Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...
Social scientists and public officials have long identified poverty as a “root cause” of crime or, at least, as a significant “risk factor.” Such a causal linkage was made by Roman emperor Marcus ...
Over 11% of the U.S. population — about one in nine people — lived below the federal poverty line in 2021. But Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says neither that statistic, nor the federal ...
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Donald Boudreaux: Wealth has causes, poverty doesn't
Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on ...
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