The Politics of Poverty  

A few short years ago it was widely assumed that poverty was declining in the U.S. Indeed, to think about the poor was to reveal an inability to overcome the “trauma of the 1930’s,” for the vast improvement in levels …



A Guide to Economic Thinking  

Main Currents in Modern Economics: Economic Thought Since 1870 by Ben B. Seligman The Free Press, 1962, 887 pp., $11.75 Unemployment, automation, poverty, the gold drain, taxation policy have pushed economics back to center stage in American social thought. A …