Abstract
Conversations between scholars across disciplinary divides, searching for means to understand the multiple dimensions of poverty, have much to offer a field that continues to be dominated by mainstream economics. An open-ended exploration of alternatives to this approach, represented by most of the papers in this collection, contributes to the emergence of a broader discussion in social science on poverty and poverty alleviation.
Highlights
Conversations between scholars across disciplinary divides, searching for means to understand the multiple dimensions of poverty, have much to offer a field that continues to be dominated by mainstream economics.1 An open-ended exploration of alternatives to this approach, represented by most of the papers in this collection, contributes to the emergence of a broader discussion in social science on poverty and poverty alleviation
Poverty on a general Latin American level had risen to 44 percent by 2003
What the others would refer to in terms of globalization with opportunities that, to a certain extent, are new and positive, is seen as an imperialist pressure on the people in Latin America to comply with U.S demands. Ellner associates this strategy with the writings of James Petras, who is known to criticize Venezuelan President Hugo Cháves’s soft stance on privatization. If these anti-liberal approaches stem from the sphere of party politics and the state, the recent emergence of indigenous identity politics in Latin America offers a different perspective on both poverty and liberalism
Summary
Conversations between scholars across disciplinary divides, searching for means to understand the multiple dimensions of poverty, have much to offer a field that continues to be dominated by mainstream economics. An open-ended exploration of alternatives to this approach, represented by most of the papers in this collection, contributes to the emergence of a broader discussion in social science on poverty and poverty alleviation. Conversations between scholars across disciplinary divides, searching for means to understand the multiple dimensions of poverty, have much to offer a field that continues to be dominated by mainstream economics.. An open-ended exploration of alternatives to this approach, represented by most of the papers in this collection, contributes to the emergence of a broader discussion in social science on poverty and poverty alleviation. Arguments for or against relativism and foundationalism (or universalism) crisscross in the social scientific field, both within and between disciplines, and are not reducible to a formal academic divide. Poverty on the Rebound: The Work of Models surveying approaches to poverty across the disciplines and to the power (or work) of models in liberal economics
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