... counterpart, was about experiencing what Indians had learned about modernity at the imperial universities in India. And yet, when the Indian travelers went to Europe they observed modernity alongside poverty, something that modernity should have excluded. Travel and travel writing for imperial subjects like...

...Romain Huret This essay analyzes the network of social experts who launched the War on Poverty in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1963 to 1968. If they are often neglected in historical accounts, which are focused on public intellectuals and presidential advisers, these experts played...

...Malcolm Rutherford A Worker’s Economist: John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty . By Chasse John Dennis . New York : Transaction Publishers , 2017 . x; 317 pp. $59.95 . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Commons...

...Amitava Krishna Dutt The main economic ideas of Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Govind Ranade, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are discussed in terms of their analysis of poverty and its causes, their economic methodology, their normative ideas about development, and their prescriptions for fostering...

...Elizabeth Durbin Gertrude Himmelfarb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Pp. 596. $25.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 BOOK REVIEWS The idea of poverty: England in the early industrial age. By Gertrude Himmel- farb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Pp. 596...

.... Anthony Brewer, University of Bristol 10.1215/00182702-2007-025 Knut Wicksell on Poverty: “No Place Is Too Exalted for the Preaching of These Doctrines.” By Mats Lundahl. Oxford: Routledge, 2005. xv; 122 pp. $165.00. This book is mistitled. Far...

...Geoffrey Gilbert Donald Winch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 428 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834. By Donald Winch. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

..., a claim with which one could not quarrel, but it is not disequilibrium analysis understood in a wider, less mechanistic and evolu- tionary sense. California State University, Fullerton JAMESL. DIETZ Poverty and wealth in James. By Pedrito V. Maynard-Reid. Maryknoll. New York...

...Daniel Zamora Vargas The institutionalization of guaranteed minimum income systems in France and Belgium, carried out through the modernization of assistance schemes (Minimex in 1974, RMI in 1988), has generally been presented as the political outcome of the “rediscovery” of “hidden” poverty...

...Maria Bach; Mary S. Morgan This article examines how the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) redefined their idea of development over the two decades from 1990, no longer presenting it as only a matter of economic progress but instead focusing more on the problem of poverty and its reduction...

... of “war” on, poverty; and the 2010s, when the “1 percent” became a potent symbol of the increasingly extreme concentration of wealth. Despite pronounced differences, both moments reveal how even the most dramatic of measurements could be, and were, used as much to minimize as to reveal the broader...

... of poverty: the limits of bourgeois political economy Robert Fatton Jr. Introduction Hegel maintained that the emergence of bourgeois civilization had given rise to the antinomy of wealth and poverty and the separation of civil society from...

... on Walras. University of Bath DAVIDCOLLARD An inquiry into the poverty of economics. By Charles K. Wilber and Kenneth P. Jameson. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 1983. Pp. x, 289. $2 1.95 cloth; $8.95 paperback. The authors argue that contemporary...

... Smith. University of Illinois SALIMRASHID Religious poverty and the pro$t economy in medieval Europe. By Lester K. Little. Ithaca, New York: Come11 University Press, 1983. Pp. 267. $8.95. Lester Little’s Religious poverty and the profit economy in medieval...

...Ken McCormick Richard W. Lindholm and Arthur D. Lynn, Jr. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. 238. $20.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 353 Land value taxation: the Progress and Poverty...

..., and convergence. More recently, the case for increasing foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa has reemerged and has been linked to the Solow model via the hypothesis that many poor countries are caught in a poverty trap. This paper provides critical commentary on the literature relating to the Solow model, economic...

...Evelyn L. Forget The Office of Economic Opportunity was established, under the leadership of Sargent Shriver, to fight President Johnson's War on Poverty as part of the Great Society program. Between 1964 and 1968, two intellectual communities vied for supremacy within that office. In the early...

... developing aperspectival objectivity. If removing the particular perspective of the observer from the report is the goal, what behaviors and preparation on the part of the observer are necessary? Both Mayhew and Martineau worked hard to represent the reality of urban poverty—that is, to achieve ontological...

...Jean-Baptiste Fleury This article investigates the expansion of the scope of economics in the 1960s. We show that the public policy problems raised by the issue of poverty reinforced the expansion, as economists became progressively involved in the social issues of the day. Until the early 1960s...

... in the conquest of poverty and the historical achievement of justice. These themes in Utilitarianism also go far toward reconciling that essay with Mill's utilitarian roots. Correspondence may be addressed to Joseph Persky, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607; e-mail: jpersky...