The Persistence of Poverty

Proposes a fresh explanation of the behaviours that keep people poor, including unemployment, abandoning school, failure to save, and breaking the law. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, this book engages us and provides us with a grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction. New thinking about poverty is finally here In this important book, one of our boldest and most original thinkers charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to fail. Using science, history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, Charles Karelis engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and satisfaction—and from there to a new and persuasive explanation of what keeps poor people poor. Above all, he shows how this fresh perspective can reinspire the long-stalled campaign against poverty.