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Investing in People
Argues that healthy, educated people are the world's most important resource and that the world's poor have not been adequately helped by foreign aid because of the misunderstandings of donor governments
The Economics of Being Poor
"The Economics of Being Poor" is mainly devoted to the economics of acquiring skills and knowlede, to investment in the quality of the population and to the increasing economic importance of human capital - the quality of the work-force embodied in the health, education and skills, including the entrepreneurial skills of the workers themselves. The volume is divided into three parts: "Most People are Poor, Invsting in Skills and Knowledge, and Effects of Human Capital." "The Economics of Being Poor" represents a remarkable testament to perhaps the most elegant stylist in post-war economics.
Investment in Human Capital
Monograph arguing that investment in human resources through education (human capital formation) and the cost of and resource allocation to research are important sources of economic growth neglected by classical economic theory - covers the rate of return in higher education in the USA, the effect on income distribution, etc., and attempts to show that the slowness of institutions to adjust to new demands made by the rise in the economic value of man is the key to important public problems. References and statistical tables.
Food for the World
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Handbook of Psychobiography
Brings together the world's leading psychobiographers, writing on many of the major figures of our age - from Osama Bin Laden to Elvis Presley. This book addresses the subject of how to construct a psychobiography. It provides useful definitions of good and bad psychobiography, and discusses an optimal structure for psychobiographical essays.
Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought
Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction and abolition. This edited volume traces the ideas of key writers and schools of modern economic thought across a significant period, ranging from Friedrich Hayek and Keynes to latter-day economists like Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton. The chapters relate poverty to income distribution, asserting the point that poverty is not always conceived of in absolute terms but that relative and social deprivation matters also. Furthermore, the contributors deal with both individual poverty and the poverty of nations in the context of the ...
