Poverty in Contemporary Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition.

Introduction: poverty in contemporary economic thought; 1 Hayek, welfarism, and the deserving poor; 2 Economist and statesman: Keynes on poverty; 3 Poverty and circular, cumulative causation: the views of Gunnar Myrdal; 4 Veblen, North, and the institutional economics on poverty; 5 Sir Arthur Lewis on economic growth and global poverty alleviation; 6 The economics of being poor: the gospel according to Theodore W. Schultz; 7 Why poor countries remain poor: the Latin American dependency school; 8 Poverty and New Welfare Economics; 9 Capability deprivation and poverty: Amartya Sen revisited; 10 Angus Deaton on poverty; 11 Alleviating global poverty: a note on the experimental approach