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The Nature of Mass Poverty

(Harvard Paperbacks)

By John Kenneth Galbraith

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| Hardcover | 9780674605336

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The Galbraith incisibeness, clarity, and wit are here brought to bear on the central aspects of the most important economic and social probelms of our time. The Nature of Mass Poverty proceeds from the author's conviction that most explanations of conditions in poor countries do not explain. Continue

The Galbraith incisibeness, clarity, and wit are here brought to bear on the central aspects of the most important economic and social probelms of our time. The Nature of Mass Poverty proceeds from the author's conviction that most explanations of conditions in poor countries do not explain. They reflect, instead, the experience of the rich countries. Or they create cause out of cure. Capital and technical expertise being available from the rich countries, shortage of these becomes the cause of povery in the poor.

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  • This book is not what i imagine it would be. It travels a long distance from what it seems to me the core reason of poverty.Maybe because I am too young and do not have much experience of living in the rural area. It gives some weird reasons for people being poor like accomdation. I think it did not ... (continue)

    This book is not what i imagine it would be. It travels a long distance from what it seems to me the core reason of poverty.Maybe because I am too young and do not have much experience of living in the rural area. It gives some weird reasons for people being poor like accomdation. I think it did not hit the core of the problem.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 160 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0674605330
  • ISBN-13: 9780674605336
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Pub date: Feb 28, 1979
  • Also available as: Paperback
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