Description: This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.
Review Quotes: "This slim volume offers ample food for thought to scholars with a serious interest in social or economic inequality. The star contributors-- economists, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers--present concepts, theories, and proposals that will stimulate those outside as well as within their home disciplines. While avoiding the circular reasoning characteristic of the 1960's 'culture of poverty, ' these accessible essays enlarge the concept of poverty--and, I hope, of poverty research and policy--by elaborating the idea that social justice requires measurable equality of capabilities or opportunities, and not merely of economic resources."--Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin--Madison