The Economic Thought on Poverty Measurement : From the Nineteenth-Century to the Rediscovering Era

This essay describes the evolution of the Economics of Poverty from the seminal works of Charles Booth and Joseph Rowntree to the Rediscovering Era in the 1960's. It shows how the leading objectives of its authors changed over the decades. The description is roughly exhaustive, pointing out the way how the leading concepts, many of them frequently used even nowadays, were developed by its authors

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Nunes, Celso Pereira
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Armut \| Poverty \| Ökonomische Ideengeschichte \| History of economic thought \| Messung \| Measurement \| Welt \| World

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (26 p)
Series:	ECINEQ Working Paper ; No. 2008-92
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 16, 2008 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1272567 [DOI]
Classification:	B19 - History of Economic Thought through 1925. Other ; B29 - History of Economic Thought since 1925. Other ; B49 - Economic Methodology. Other ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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